Chiltern Hills Academy is a co-educational
Academy School in
Chesham
Chesham (, , or ) is a market town and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, south-east of the county town of Aylesbury, north-west of central London, and part of the London commuter belt. It is in the Chess Valley, surrounded by farmla ...
,
Buckinghamshire. It is a Church Of England school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 700 students. It has Design Academy
Specialist school status.
History
''Chesham Park School'' was formed in 1988 by merging the Cestreham Boys’ School and the Lowndes Girls’ School. It was renamed ''Chesham Park Community College'' in 1993.
In 2004 the
Department for Education and Skills (DfES) awarded the school
specialist school status as an
Arts College
An Arts College, in the United Kingdom, is a type of specialist school that specialises in the subject fields of the performing, visual, digital and/or media arts. They were announced in 1996 and introduced alongside Sports Colleges to England i ...
, specialising in the
Performing Arts.
In 2007 the school won three awards at a UK Rock Challenge competition at
St Albans.
The school hosts an offshoot of
Chickenshed
Chickenshed (also known as Chicken Shed or the Chicken Shed Theatre Company) is a British theatre company based in Southgate, London.
Chickenshed's membership programme comprises four Children's theatre groups and two Youth theatre groups for you ...
known as "Shed@ThePark".
In 2011 the school's name was changed to ''Chiltern Hills Academy''. The specialist status of Performing Arts has been combined with Design. These specialist subjects are used to support a creative and enriched curriculum.
School performance
In 2015, 51% of pupils achieved five or more A* to C grades including English and Mathematics at
GCSE level. At
A-Level and AS-Level, students attain an average 575 points. These results reflect Buckinghamshire's
selective education
A selective school is a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic. The term may have different connotations in different systems and is the opposite of a comprehensive school, which accepts all ...
policy, as the school shares its catchment area with three
grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
s,
Chesham Grammar School,
Dr. Challoner's Grammar School and
Dr. Challoner's High School.
Grammar School Catchment Areas (Boys)
Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2008-06-11
Academy status
The school gained approval to convert to reopen as an Academy in August 2011. The Academy, is sponsored by the Diocese of Oxford
The Diocese of Oxford is a Church of England diocese that forms part of the Province of Canterbury. The diocese is led by the Bishop of Oxford (currently Steven Croft), and the bishop's seat is at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. It contain ...
, Buckinghamshire County Council
Buckinghamshire County Council was the upper-tier local authority for the administrative county and later the non-metropolitan county of Buckinghamshire, in England, the United Kingdom established in 1889 following the Local Government Act 1888 ...
, Amersham and Wycombe College, Buckinghamshire New University
, mottoeng = By Art and Industry
, established = 2007 – gained university status 1891 – Science and Art School
, type = Public
, staff =
, chancellor = Jay Blades
, vice_chancellor = Nick Braisby
, st ...
, Pinewood Studios, and the George Abbot Specialist Visual Arts College in Guildford, Surrey.
References
External links
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Department for Education Performance Tables 2011
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Chesham
Secondary schools in Buckinghamshire
Academies in Buckinghamshire