Mossbourne Community Academy 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 and

sixth form In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepare for A-l ...

with academy status, located near Hackney Downs off the A104 road, 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 origin ...

area of the London Borough of Hackney 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 It has been replaced by the Mossbourne Community Academy.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 ...

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

City Academies An academy school in England is a state-funded school which is directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local authority control. The terms of the arrangements are set out in individual Academy Funding Agreements. Most ...

' in England. Bourne commissioned the

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Rogers may refer to: Places Canada *Rogers Pass (British Columbia) * Rogers Island (Nunavut) United States * Rogers, Arkansas, a city * Rogers, alternate name of Muroc, California, a former settlement * Rogers, Indiana, an unincorporated communit ...

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

Description

The first principal of the school was Michael Wilshaw, who left the school to become Chief Inspector of Schools In England and head of Ofsted 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

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

. 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 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in Stratford, Hackney Wick, Leyton and Bow, in east London. It was purpose-built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, situated adjacent to the Stratford City developm ...

named Mossbourne Riverside Academy and acquired the former Brooke Community School which is currently named Mossbourne Parkside Academy in Hackney Downs.

Alumni

* Nahum Melvin-Lambert, who is a professional footballer and has played for

Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling ...

and St Patrick's Athletic, studied at Mossbourne.

References

External links

Mossbourne Community Academy official website
{{authority control Secondary schools in the London Borough of Hackney Academies in the London Borough of Hackney Educational institutions established in 2004 2004 establishments in England Clapton, London Specialist music colleges in England