Newcastle Academy is a mixed

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

located in

Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-under-Lyme ( RP: , ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. The 2011 census population of the town was 75,082, whilst the wider borough had a population of 1 ...

in the

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Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

. Previously known as Sneyd High School, it was later renamed Newcastle Community High School and then gained

Science College Science Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics. Schools that suc ...

status. In October 2015 the school converted to academy status and was renamed Newcastle Academy. The school is now part of Multi-academy trust The United Endeavour Trust along with

Clayton Hall Academy Clayton Hall Academy is a mixed secondary school located in the Clayton area of Newcastle-under-Lyme in the English county of Staffordshire. History The present Clayton Hall, which is used as part of the college, is at least the third Hall o ...

and Sir Thomas Boughey High School. Newcastle Academy offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, with some courses offered in conjunction with Clayton Hall Academy.

References

External links

Newcastle Academy official website
Secondary schools in Staffordshire Newcastle-under-Lyme Academies in Staffordshire {{Staffordshire-school-stub