The Armthorpe Academy (formerly Armthorpe School) is a

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

Armthorpe Armthorpe is a large village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 12,630, increasing to 14,457 at the 2011 Census. Histor ...

Doncaster Doncaster (, ) is a city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, it is the administrative centre of the larger City of Doncaster. It is the second largest settlement in South Yorkshire after Sheffield. Doncaster is situated in ...

, England. It has approximately 770 pupils, serves the former mining village of Armthorpe, and is situated to the east of Doncaster and less than west from Junction 4 of the M18 motorway.

History

The school was opened in 1842 as a National school, and was converted into an

Academy An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

in 2012.

References

Secondary schools in Doncaster Academies in Doncaster 1842 establishments in England Educational institutions established in 1842 {{Yorkshire-school-stub