Humberston Academy
Admissions
It does not have a sixth form. It is situated on Humberston Avenue (B1219 - off the A1031) in the west of Humberston. Further to the west along the B1219 is the Tollbar Academy, and the school is less than one mile north of Lincolnshire (East Lindsey - Tetney and Holton-le-Clay, which has grammar schools). Directly to the west is the Humberston Country Club golf club.
History
In 1974 it was forecast to cost £640,000, for 600 children. The local community would be able to take part in recreation in the sports hall, community hall, and swimming pool. It was given the final approval on Friday 4 April 1975, to be built on 5 acres, in the Borough of Cleethorpes. It was built by William Wright & Sons of Lincoln. The building was not complete when the school opened. The former professional footballer Rod Fletcher became PE teacher in 1977.
The school opened in 1977 as Humberston Comprehensive School.
From the early 1980s, due to less children at schools in Grimsby, the school, with the Chelmsford school was proposed to close, and a sixth form college built in Grimsby, with the first meeting at the school to discuss the proposals of closure, in September 1981. The Chelmsford school would close, and the site became the new sixth form college.
By the late 1990s, with Healing School, it was an oversubscribed school, with parents choosing these two schools other Grimsby secondary schools, which could be frequently chaotic, being regularly quoted in adverts of local estate agents, which described the school as 'popular'. Nearby Caistor Grammar School was also popular with Grimsby parents, for the sixth form.
Until 1996 it was administered by Humberside Education Committee, based in Beverley. It gained specialist status in 2006.
In January 2009 it was placed in special measures. From September 2009, the school name changed from Humberston School to Humberston Maths and Computing College.
The school converted to academy status in 2011 and was renamed Humberston Academy. the school is now sponsored by the David Ross Education Trust.
Headteachers
- 1977 - Mrs Brenda Hall, appointed in February 1977, she attended Wintringham Grammar School for Girls, taking part in the school dramatic society, and trained as a teacher at the University of Birmingham in the early 1950s and was the headmistress of the Manning Grammar School for Girls in Nottingham, which became comprehensive in 1975, and became Nottingham Girls' Academy in 2011
- 1986 Bill Cormack
Academic performance
In the last round of GCSE exams, the school gained the third best GCSE results for North East Lincolnshire.
Notable former pupils
- Keeley Donovan, BBC weather presenter
- Max Wright (English footballer), Grimsby Town footballer: Max Wright
- Harry Clifton (footballer, born 1998), Grimsby Town footballer: Harry Clifton
- Adam Drury (footballer, born 1993)
References
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Monday 23 September 1974, page 5
- ^ Louth Standard Friday 3 January 1975, page 18
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 9 April 1975, page 11
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 5 August 1977, page 6
- ^ "School history". Archived from the original on 17 September 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Thursday 10 September 1981, page 1
- ^ Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Friday 11 September 1981, page 1
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 24 November 1989, page 3
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 20 June 1997, page 67
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 27 June 1997, page 56
- ^ Special measures
- ^ "School name". Archived from the original on 13 July 2009. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 4 February 1977, page 14
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Thursday 10 February 1977, page 1
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Wednesday 30 April 1947, page 4
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Saturday 17 February 1951, page 4
- ^ Nottingham Evening Post Saturday 25 November 1972, page 6
- ^ Grimsby Evening Telegraph Saturday 19 February 1977, page 4
