Mossbourne Community Academy is a

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and

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with academy status, located near

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off the

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, in the

Lower Clapton Clapton is a district of East London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney. Clapton is divided into Upper Clapton, in the north, and Lower Clapton to the south. Clapton railway station lies north-east of Charing Cross. Geography and ori ...

area of the

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in England.

Buildings

The school was first opened in 2004 on the site of the former

Hackney Downs School Hackney Downs School was an 11–16 boys, community comprehensive secondary school in Lower Clapton, Greater London, England. It was established in 1876 and closed in 1995. It has been replaced by the Mossbourne Community Academy. History Gr ...

. The site had been purchased by Sir Clive Bourne who founded the school as one of the first '

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' in England. Bourne commissioned the

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to design the new school buildings, which cost £19,000,000

Description

The first principal of the school was

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, who left the school to become Chief Inspector of Schools In England and head of

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in January 2012. The school opened a sixth form building in September 2009 which cost £7.7 million; they named it in memory after the late Sir Clive Bourne as the "Sir Clive Sixth Form Centre". The school has a specialism in

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. Since its opening Mossbourne Community Academy has been regularly lauded as one of the top performing inner city schools in England, and used as an example of the success of the academy model for schools in general. As of September 2017, the current head of the Academy is Rebecca Warren. There are 8 houses: Milton, Mandela, Malala, Moore, Blackman, Bevan, Butler and Bronte.

Mossbourne Federation

In September 2014 the Mossbourne Federation was established. The Federation opened a sister school near Victoria Park , Hackney named Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy which operates under similar policies to the original school. As of September 2015 the Federation opened two primary schools, one near the site of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park named Mossbourne Riverside Academy and acquired the former

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which is currently named Mossbourne Parkside Academy in

Alumni

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, who is a professional footballer and has played for

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and

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, studied at Mossbourne.

References

External links

Mossbourne Community Academy official website
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