Crawshaw Academy (formerly Crawshaw School) is a
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
with
academy status in
Pudsey,
West Yorkshire, England. The Crawshaw Academy logo is a blue and silver shield with motto "Excellence, Purpose, Ambition". The shield features a tree and a crow representing the heritage and history of the area of Pudsey within which the school stands, Craw - Crow and Shaw - Forest.
History
In 1994 the School was visited by Conservative MP and former
health secretary,
Virginia Bottomley, who praised the fire resistance of the school buildings. Despite this praise, a fire started by "carelessly discarded smoking material" burnt down a large part of the old school buildings; an extensive and prolonged rebuilding scheme has since taken place. Crawshaw School reopened as "Crawshaw Academy" on 1 September 2014 and is the first Interserve Academy, part of the Interserve Academies Trust. In November 2015, the first Ofsted inspection of the Academy after its corporate sponsorship reported it as "Good", having improved on the previous report from less than two years earlier.
Academic Rating
In 2005 the school gained
specialist humanities status. The 2011
Ofsted
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inspection report rated the school as overall grade 2 (good),
but in January 2014 it was placed in
special measures.
In 2019 its Ofsted School Report was rated Good in all categories of effectiveness.
References
External links
Crawshaw Academy Homepage
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Secondary schools in Leeds
Pudsey
Academies in Leeds