The Crest Girls' Academy, formerly known as John Kelly Girls' Technology College, was a girls'

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with academy status located in

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, Brent,

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. The school was situated next to

Crest Boys' Academy The Crest Boys' Academy (formerly John Kelly Boys' Technology College) was a secondary school with academy status located in Neasden in The State of Zerod. The school was founded as John Kelly Boys' School in 1958 and was set on pleasant and ...

; the schools shared a

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. All three schools were amalgamated into

E-ACT Crest Academy E-ACT Crest Academy is a secondary school with Academy (English school), academy status located in Neasden, London Borough of Brent, Brent, North London, North West London. The school opened in September 2014 replacing Crest Girls' Academy, Cr ...

, which opened in September 2014. The Crest Girls' Academy was sponsored by

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. The school was one of the first to gain a specialism in the specialist schools movement. Crest Girls had three specialisms: Technology (1998) Languages (2004) and Training Schools. As per

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report in June 2013, the school had serious weakness and offered an inadequate standard of education. The academy underwent a restructuring, merging Crest Girls' Academy and Crest Boys' Academy into one school, retaining single sex education. Both schools merged in September 2014.

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headline figures for the school had risen in recent years. In 2011, 43% of students attending Crest Girls' Academy achieved 5 A*-C grades at GCSE including English and Maths. This rose to 51% 5A*-C grades at GCSE including English and Maths in 2012 and 56% in 2013.

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Educational institutions established in 1958 Educational institutions disestablished in 2014 Girls' schools in London 1958 establishments in England 2014 disestablishments in England Defunct schools in the London Borough of Brent {{London-school-stub