Wingfield Academy is a

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with academy status, located in the Wingfield area of

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. It has been renamed three times since it opened. It was originally named Wingfield Comprehensive School until September 2006 when it became simply Wingfield School. In September 2008, it became a

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and was rebranded as Wingfield Business & Enterprise College. The third rename occurred in August 2013 when the college completed its transition to an academy becoming Wingfield Academy. On 1 December 2020 Wingfield Academy become part of the New Collaborative Learning Trust.

Ofsted inspections

Since the commencement of

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inspections in September 1993, the school has undergone 10 inspections:

References

External links

Wingfield Academy website
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