Broadway Academy (formerly Broadway 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 t ...

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and

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with academy status, located in the

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area of

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. Originally known as Broadway School, the school building was rebuilt in 2010 as part of the

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programme. The new building was officially opened by the

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in 2011. The school converted to academy status in July 2013, and was renamed Broadway Academy.

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