Haughton Academy (formerly Haughton Community 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 located in the

Haughton-le-Skerne Haughton-le-Skerne is a village in the borough of Darlington (borough), Darlington in the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated in the north east of Darlington. The village lies to the west of the River Skerne. At the centre ...

area of Darlington, County Durham, England. Previously a community school administered by

Darlington Borough Council The Borough of Darlington is a unitary authority and borough in County Durham, Northern England. The borough is named after the town of Darlington, and in 2011 had a population of 106,000. It is in the Tees Valley mayoralty. The borough bord ...

, Haughton Community School converted to academy status in April 2012 and was renamed Haughton Academy. The school is now part of the Education Village Academy Trust, but continues to coordinate with Darlington Borough Council for admissions. Haughton Academy is part of the Education Village, a £27 million campus that opened in Haughton-le-skerne, Darlington, in April 2006 and has an enrolment of 1358. Haughton Academy has a capacity of 900, Springfield Primary has 210 and Beaumont Hill has 248 students. All of which are part of the Education Village. The Academy Trust involves Gurney Pease Academy and Marchbank free school and are in separate locations in the town. All together the Education Village Academy Trust has an enrolment of 1600. This also includes Beaumont Hill and Springfield Academy. In mid 2019, Lord Theodore Agnew visited the school after it was selected to take part in a £24 million government initiative to improve education at the school, this includes a new MUGA that is being built. The funds for this initiative are coming from sugar taxes and being re-invested in healthy schemes such as this. The parliamentary Lord was shown plans for the new multi-use outdoor sport pitch to be built at the Education Village to be used by the 3 schools and the community (Who have access to the village on an evening). As of October 2019, construction has started on the new sport area and is due to be completed at Christmas.

References

External links

Haughton Academy official website
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