Dixons Cottingley Academy (formerly Samuel Lister Academy, Aire Valley School, Nab Wood School and originally Nab Wood Grammar School) 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
Cottingley,
West Yorkshire, England.
Originally opened as Nab Wood Grammar School, later Nab Wood School, it was later a
foundation school
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools.
Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework A ...
administered by
Bradford City Council
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is the local authority of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in West Yorkshire and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, ...
and the Nab Wood Community Trust. As Aire Valley School it converted to
academy status in April 2012 and was renamed after
Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham, an inventor and industrialist, notable for inventing the
Lister nip comb. It was later renamed Dixons Cottingley Academy. The school is now sponsored by
Dixons Academies Trust but continues to coordinate with the Bradford City Council for admissions. It was graded as a 'Good' school in November 2022 by Ofsted.
[https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50204553]
Dixons Cottingley Academy offers
GCSEs and
BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.
References
External links
Dixons Cottingley Academy official website
Secondary schools in the City of Bradford
Bingley
Academies in the City of Bradford
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