Havant Academy is a mixed

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located in the

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area of

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in the

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. The school is situated at the edge of Staunton Country Park. Previously known as Wakeford Comprehensive School, it gained specialist

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status and was renamed Staunton Community Sports College. It then became a

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administered by

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. The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2010 and was renamed Havant Academy, becoming the first academy in Hampshire. It is sponsored by the Kemnal Academies Trust. Havant Academy was rated 'good' in most aspects in its

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report of June 2015. In previous Ofsted reports Havant Academy had been found unsatisfactory; in 2013 Ofsted stated that "The academy is making reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures." Havant Academy offers

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, BTECs and other vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils.

Notable former pupils

* Graham Stokes, music executive and musician

Notable former staff

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, Secretary General of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

References

External links

* {{authority control Secondary schools in Hampshire Academies in Hampshire