Conyers School is a

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and

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with academy status, in

Yarm Yarm-on-Tees, or simply Yarm, is a market town in North Yorkshire, England. It lies on a meander of the River Tees, extending south-east to the River Leven, North Yorkshire, River Leven and south to the village of Kirklevington. A civil parish i ...

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, England.

History

The Free Grammar School was founded in 1590 by Thomas Conyers of

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, who was issued

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to found a

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in the

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of Yarm. The original Free Grammar School of Thomas Conyers was in the grounds of Yarm Parish Church, but transferred to a site off The Spital in 1884. In 1977, the school moved to its present site on Green Lane when it became a comprehensive school. The fee-paying

Yarm School Yarm School is a co-educational Private schools in the United Kingdom, private day school in Yarm, North Yorkshire in the North East of England. The school accepts pupils aged 3–18 years old and has a Nursery Pre-Prep, Preparatory School, Sen ...

was founded on the site at The Spital in the following year.

Present day

The school

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covers the

of Yarm and the surrounding

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s including

Kirklevington Kirklevington (also known as Kirk Leavington) is a village in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 census, the village had a population of 809. The civil parish had a population of 1,361. The village shares it ...

, as well as a proportion of

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. Conyers has approximately 1500 pupils, including 1300 in the lower school and 200 in the sixth form, with pupils studying for

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and

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examinations. Students are also able to study certain

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and BTEC courses. The current headteacher is Chris Coleman Conyers School is one of a number of sixth form providers in the local area. The school's previous Executive Head, John Morgan, was the President of the

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(ASCL) for the 2009-10 academic year. Whilst on this one year secondment, Louise Spellman became the school's Acting Head Teacher. In September 2010 the school remodelled its leadership. John Morgan returned from secondment to become Executive Headteacher. Louise Spellman took the role of Head of School. On 21 June 2012 the school announced that John Morgan, Head Teacher since 1995, had died. The school set up a condolence page on its web site. In April 2012, the school began a consultation on the possibility of an academy conversion. The consultation found that there was an overall majority for supporting academy status. The school converted into an academy on 1 February 2013.

Academic performance and inspections

The October 2010

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inspection awarded the school a Grade 1 "Outstanding" for overall effectiveness."Conyers School"
Ofsted report 2010. Pdf download required. Retrieved 7 January 2012 As of 2023, the school's most recent inspection was a short inspection in 2018, with a judgement of Good.

References

External links

School websiteBBC league table
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