Ernesford Grange Community Academy (formerly Ernesford Grange School) is a secondary comprehensive

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with

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facilities in the

Ernesford Grange Ernesford Grange is a suburb of Coventry, West Midlands. It is in the southeast of the city and borders the Binley, Stoke Aldermoor and Willenhall areas. It is part of the Coventry South Constituency. The district was built in the 1960s and t ...

area of

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

, England. The school has a very mixed catchment area and, as such, is above the national average for proportion of students receiving

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s and students with special educational needs. Despite the fact that most students enter the school with below average

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2 results,

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and 4 results are above that of similar schools. Value added scores show how well the school is doing. It is a major part of the Riverside partnership which links several schools in the local area into a consortium to offer a wider range of subjects at

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. The school motto is "Together we Achieve".

History

The school was built in 1972 as one of the first suburban

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s in the country. Over the past few years, the school has been through major changes in both structure and organisation. Many of the blocks have been rebuilt or renovated and the timetable has been rearranged. In 2005, it gained

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status in science and is currently the only specialist

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in the city. The school converted to academy status on 1 January 2014 and was renamed Ernesford Grange Community Academy.

External links

Official Website
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