Aldercar High School is a

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and

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located in

Aldercar Aldercar is a village in Derbyshire, England. It is located near Langley Mill, close to the county boundary with Nottinghamshire, and forms part of the civil parish of Aldercar and Langley Mill. The area is commonly known in Amber Valley thanks to ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

, England. It is close to the

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and Langley Mill Academy, and is next door to Aldercar Infants School.

Admissions

The school's catchment area includes

Langley Mill Langley Mill is a large village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. History Originally named ''Long Lea'', the village of Langley Mill was a major employer throughout the mid 1900s with many companies including The Flour Mi ...

and

Heanor Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies north-east of Derby and forms, with the adjacent village of Loscoe, the civil parish and town council-administered area of Heano ...

. Students from

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and Ripley also attend. As of 2021, the school had around 600 students.

History

The school opened in September 1955 as a

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. It became Heanor Aldercar Comprehensive School, then Aldercar School. The school has been awarded specialist

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status, and was named Aldercar Community Language College for a time before being renamed Aldercar High School. In 2009, the Phoenix Centre Sixth Form building opened, offering courses for ages 16–19. Previously a community school administered by

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, in October 2022 Aldercar High School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Embark Multi Academy Trust.

Notable former pupils

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, world champion motorcycle racer * Paris Simmons, footballer * Nick Wright, footballer * Paul Reece, footballer *

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, actress

References

Department for Children, Schools and Families School Verification
* ''Aldercar, the Story of a School'', Mary and John Sheppard, December 2006,

External links

Aldercar High School

Searching for knives in October 2007

Deputy head attacked by pupils from Eastwood School in December 2005

Designing school uniforms in March 2002

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