Bexhill High Academy (formerly Bexhill High School) is a
coeducational
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school with
academy status, located in
Bexhill-on-Sea in the
English county of
East Sussex.
Bexhill High converted to academy status in November 2012. It had been a
community school administered by
East Sussex County Council
East Sussex County Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex.
East Sussex is divided into five local government districts. Three are larger, rural, districts (from west to east: Lewes; Wealden; and Rother). ...
. The school continues to coordinate with East Sussex County Council for admissions. As an academy, the school was previously part of the Prospects Academies Trust. However, in May 2014 the trust folded. Bexhill High Academy is now part of the Attwood Academies trust.
Along with
Bexhill College
Bexhill College is a sixth form college in the south-east of England
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the school operates
Bexhill FM
Bexhill FM is a restricted service licence FM frequency station broadcasting to Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, UK for two weeks a year.
The station is regulated by Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, whenever it is on air in its RSL per ...
, a Restricted Service Licence
FM frequency station which broadcasts for a few weeks a year to the Bexhill area.
Notable former pupils
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Hayley Okines
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, subject of documentary
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Nils Norman
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, artist
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Alexia Walker
Alexia Laurette Walker (born 26 November 1982) is an English former cricketer who played as an all-rounder. She was a right-handed batter and right-arm fast-medium bowler. She appeared in three One Day Internationals for England in August 2001 ...
, cricketer
Notable former staff
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Russell Floyd
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, actor
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, piano accordionist
References
External links
Bexhill Academy official website
Secondary schools in East Sussex
Academies in East Sussex
Bexhill-on-Sea
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