The Dukeries Academy (formerly The Dukeries Comprehensive School and then The Dukeries College and Complex) is a
secondary school
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,
community college situated in
Ollerton,
Nottinghamshire.
It offers education for students aged 11–19.
ATTFE College, the school's
sixth form, also offer a range of level 2 and 3 courses, including
GCSE
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s and
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s.
Opened in September 1964 as, with Kirkby in Ashfiled Comprehensive School, the first Nottinghamshire County Comprehensives - Fairham Comprehensive School in Nottingham had preceded them, then the School immediately proved to be a high quality "Community Provision" at a time when the village and neighbouring Edwinstowe and Bilsthorpe - who provided young people as pupils at the school - were thriving mining communities. The School/College/Academy therefore celebrates its 49th anniversary in 2014.
The Dukeries has been visited by
Ed Balls,
Sebastian Coe
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and
Gordon Brown.
Balls described it as "a school of the 21st century". The school received a "satisfactory" grade after an
OFSTED
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inspection.
The school became an
academy on 1 January 2013, and was renamed The Dukeries Academy.
The Dukeries offers, a
theatre,
horse riding, on-site
counselling, a
construction block (opened in 2008), an
astro-turf pitch, a
youth club and a
fire service training centre.
In 2009, The Dukeries was included in controversial plans to cut funding.
Nottinghamshire County Council proposed to cut £380,000 of the schools budget to save money.
There is a current campaign underway to stop these cuts from happening.
The attached Leisure Centre (owned by NSDC) received an extension to include a new swimming pool in 2020, and the structure was built and completed in 2021. The pool was officially opened by Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Adlington.
References
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Secondary schools in Nottinghamshire
Academies in Nottinghamshire