| Castle View Academy | |
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| Address | |
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Allaway Avenue ,, PO6 4QP England | |
| Coordinates | 50°50′58″N1°06′40″W / 50.8495°N 1.1112°W /50.8495; -1.1112 |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Established | 1952[1] |
| Local authority | Portsmouth City Council |
| Trust | United Learning |
| Department for Education URN | 145372Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Principal | Adam Potter |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrolment | 550 |
| Website | www |
Castle View Academy is aco-educationalsecondary school located in thePaulsgrove area ofPortsmouth in theEnglish county ofHampshire.
Established in 1952 as Paulsgrove Secondary Modern School – it was renamed King Richard School in 1975. In 2006, the school was awarded Arts College status for performing arts.[2] The school has won and been runners up in theUK Rock Challenge and in 2006 students from King Richard School won the Rock Crew of the Year Award. A November 2009Ofsted inspection assessed the school with Grade 3 (satisfactory).[2] In October 2012, the school was Ofsted inspected again, and assessed the school as Grade 2 (Good).
In 2015, it was announced that the school would be demolished and replaced by a new building on the existing playing field, following a number of issues, including collapsed drains, a collapsed roof and flooding.[3] In late 2017, former pupils were invited back for a tour around the building before it was demolished.[1]
Previously afoundation school administered byPortsmouth City Council, in March 2018 King Richard School converted toacademy status and renamed Castle View Academy.[4] The school is now sponsored byUnited Learning.
The school provides a mainstream National Curriculum education toGCSE,BTEC andOCR Nationals in ICT. Among the schools in the Portsmouth area that feed the school are Portsdown Primary, Beacon View, and St Paul's.