Granville Academy, formerly Granville Sports College is a

comprehensive school A comprehensive school typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is res ...

on ''Burton Road'' ( A511) in Woodville,

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maintained by the Derbyshire County Council.Granville Sports College
, web site, accessed 9 October 2008 It is part of the De Ferrers Trust.

History

Granville received specialised Sports College status in January 2008. The county council was looking at a possible merger between the school and the

William Allitt School William Allitt Academy (formerly William Allitt School) is a co-educational secondary school located in the village of Newhall, Swadlincote in South Derbyshire, England. The school was founded in 1895 as the Newhall Central Board School, when ...

. but this is no longer on the cards. The school is near the very busy A511 road, which has been the scene of accidents some involving pupils. The traffic has increased since the

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby-de-la-Zouch, sometimes spelt Ashby de la Zouch () and shortened locally to Ashby, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. The town is near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire ...

bypass opened in March 2002. Plans by the local council, Derbyshire County Council, aiming to improve road safety were rejected by Granville Academy with a spokesperson for the trust that runs Granville Academy suggesting this was because of "...concerns around site security and the safeguarding of its students". The current principal for the school is Jo Kingswood, who replaced Sylvia Thomas.

Partner schools

Most of the school's students come from Belmont, Eureka, Hartshorne, Springfield, St. Edwards Netherseal and Woodville, primary schools but also accepts some children from Leicestershire into its 830 available places.School Prospectus
2008

Academic performance

The school gets very good exam results for Derbyshire at

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, with very high results in the region and the highest between the three local schools in Swadlincote. Pingle and William Allit being those other schools. As of 2017, 69% of students achieved grade 4+ (previously grade C and above) at GCSE for both English and Maths. While 6% of students achieving the highest grade 9 (previously grade A**).

References

External links

Granville Academy

School report 2008

Politics Show February 2008

Edubase

News items

Three pupils expelled for drugs in July 2007
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