The Newark Academy (formerly The Grove School) is a mixed

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, England.

Admissions

The Newark Academy offers

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, BTECs and

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as programmes of study for pupils.

History

Former grammar school

Newark had a former girls'

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, the

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, similar to

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. Barbara Dibb was the headmistress of this school from 1947 to 1971. The school was also known as the Lilley & Stone Foundation Newark High School for Girls.

Comprehensive

It became the Grove School in 1976 when Newark went comprehensive, from the Grove Secondary Modern School. The former Lilley and Stone School is a listed building. For the first three years at secondary school, attendance was at the

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Hills High School; Paul Upex, a school caretaker, murdered a 13-year-old girl at the school, being jailed in November 1988. The last two years before 16 were at the Lilley and Stone School. These two schools merged in 1997 to become the Newark High School. This school was in special measures between 1999 and 2001. Its small sixth form closed in 2003. By 2007, pupil numbers were expected to fall below 300, which was less than half the capacity of the school. This site closed as a school in 2008, becoming the academy's sixth form. The whole site closed in 2016. The town's boys' grammar school became the Magnus Church of England School, still retaining most of its former name.

went comprehensive in 1979, and like Newark, has suffered from a haemorrhaging of admissions to schools outside of the town itself.

Academy chain

Previously a community school administered by

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, The Grove School converted to academy status on 1 November 2012 and was renamed The Newark Academy. From Autumn 2016 the school will become part of the Torch Academy Gateway Trust. The school continues to coordinate with Nottinghamshire County Council for admissions.

New building

The school moved into a new building in January 2016 situated on part of the playing field, with the area occupied by the previous building being demolished and re-landscaped.

Notable former pupils

* Caroline Mockford, Legal Secretary to Archbishop of York since 2015 *

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, actor

Lilley and Stone School

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Lilley and Stone High School for Girls

* Julia Allison, General Secretary from 1994 to 1997 of the

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(1951-58) *

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since 2004 *

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, Headmistress from 1943 to 1971 of

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, and President from 1962 to 1964 of the Association of Headmistresses of Boarding Schools (now the

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References

External links

The Newark Academy official website

Sconce Hills Secondary School
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