Lawn Manor Academy is a
secondary school with
academy
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...
status in Walcot,
Swindon, Wiltshire, England. Its site is next to The Lawn, a public park which was the grounds of a manor house, home of the
Goddard family
The Goddard family were a prominent landed family chiefly living in the northern region of the English counties of Wiltshire and Hampshire and the western part of Berkshire, between the Tudor period and the early 20th century.
The Goddard fa ...
.
The first school on this site was Lawn School, which opened in 1964.
In 1965, education in Swindon was reorganised and the secondary schools became
comprehensive; around this time the school's name was changed to Churchfields School.
In 2000
Ofsted judged the school to have serious weaknesses and put it in the category of requiring special measures to improve.
In 2004 the school was judged to have improved to Good.
In September 2011 it became Churchfields Academy.
In May 2017 the school joined the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust, and from September of that year its name became Lawn Manor Academy.
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Academies in Swindon
Secondary schools in Swindon