The St Leonards Academy is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

secondary school with academy status, located in the St Leonards-on-Sea area of

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

in East Sussex. The St Leonards Academy was established in September 2011 from a merger of Filsham Valley School and The Grove School. The school operates on the Filsham Valley site on Edinburgh Road, and continues to coordinate with

East Sussex County Council East Sussex County Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex. East Sussex is divided into five local government districts. Three are larger, rural, districts (from west to east: Lewes; Wealden; and Rother). ...

for admissions. The school is federated with Hastings Academy in the form of The Hastings Academies Trust. The school is sponsored by the

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, British Telecom, and

, and has specialisms in mathematics and ICT (Information and Communications Technology). It offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

References

External links

The St Leonards Academy official website
Secondary schools in East Sussex Hastings Academies in East Sussex {{EastSussex-school-stub