North Cambridge Academy is a small

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, England. Founded in 1959 the school has also been known as Manor Community College, and The Manor.

Partner schools

Associate primary schools are: Shirley Infant and Primary School, Kings Hedges Primary School, The Grove Primary School and Orchard Park Primary School. The Sister Schools of this establishment are Swavesey Village College, Stamford Welland Academy and Nene Park Academy.

History

The school was built as Manor School around 1959 based on a design by the architects W. Doig and M.R. Francis and, at that time, was a flagship school in Cambridge City. The school was named after Manor Farm which was in the area and was owned by Cambridgeshire County Council, who bought the farm in 1909 from the Benson family of Chesterton hall. The Council split the farm into smallholdings, and the name of one of the smallholders, William Downham, is commemorated in a nearby road called Downham's Lane.Cambridge Street Names
Ronald D. Gray, Derek Stubbings, p.129, 2000, The school was due to have funding for refurbishment, but this was removed by Cambridgeshire County Council in 2009. It has recently been selected as part of the Coalition Government's Priority School Building Programme.Priority School Building Programme
Department for Education, accessed 24 May 2012 From the 1990s to the mid 2000s the school was ran by principal Mr. Cressy and his deputy head Mrs. Forster. Unfortunately, this was a bad spell for the school as many agreed they ran the school very poorly, with rumours of corruption ending in students being unfairly expelled. In 2007 the school appointed

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education programme. The school became an academy sponsored by the Meridian Trust (known prior as Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust) in September 2013, and was renamed North Cambridge Academy. In 2020, Martin Campbell became executive head for schools in the Meridian Trust and Samuel Fox became the principal of North Cambridge Academy.

References

External links

North Cambridge Academy official website
{{authority control Secondary schools in Cambridgeshire Schools in Cambridge Educational institutions established in 1959 1959 establishments in England Academies in Cambridgeshire