Wood End Park Academy is a

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...

with academy status in

Hayes, Hillingdon Hayes is a town in west London, historically situated within the county of Middlesex, and now part of the London Borough of Hillingdon. The town's population, including its localities Hayes End, Harlington and Yeading, was recorded as 83,564 i ...

. It is part of the Park Federation Academy Trust, along with Cranford Park Academy.

History

Wood End Park Junior Mixed and Infants school was opened in 1930. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, dogfights from the

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could be seen from the school's playing fields.

Ethnic diversity

Wood End Park Academy serves a multicultural community, with the proportion of pupils coming from minority ethnic backgrounds being far higher than average. Less than a third are

White British White British is an ethnicity classification used for the native white population identifying as English, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish, Northern Irish, or British in the United Kingdom Census. In the 2011 census, the White British population wa ...

, with the largest ethnic groups being Somali, Black African and Asian Indian.

References

Primary schools in the London Borough of Hillingdon Academies in the London Borough of Hillingdon {{London-school-stub