| Havelock Academy | |
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| Address | |
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Holyoake Road ,, DN32 8JH | |
| Coordinates | 53°33′35″N0°03′04″W / 53.5596°N 0.051°W /53.5596; -0.051 |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Motto | Broadening Horizons |
| Established | September 2007 |
| Department for Education URN | 135294Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Sponsor | David Ross Education Trust |
| Principal | Emily Grace Marshall |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 918 |
| Houses | Archer Eagle Fortune Illustrious Jaguar Ramillies Tiger Vanguard |
| Former name | Havelock School |
| Website | havelockacademy |
Havelock Academy is asecondary school andsixth form withacademy status, inGrimsby,North East Lincolnshire, England.
It is north of theA46 road, near the junction with the A1031, on the opposite of the road from the formerMatthew Humberstone School.
The school was opened asCarr Lane Senior Mixed School andCarr Lane Junior Mixed School, under separate headteachers, in 1937.[1][2]
In 1956 the school's name was changed fromCarr Lane Secondary School toHavelock School.[3][4] This was afterHavelok the Dane.
It had around 900 boys and girls in the 1960s, administered by the County Borough of Grimsby Education Committee. It had grammar, technical, commercial and modern streams. The MPMartin Vickers, who left the school in 1967, said in a parliamentary debate onsocial mobility that it was "abilateral school. It had both agrammarstream and asecondary stream under the same roof, and there was movement between the two. I would say that, in reality, it was a perfectcomprehensive".[5]
It became an actual comprehensive in 1968 with 1300 boys and girls. From 1974–96 it was administered by Humberside Education Committee. In the early 1980s there were 1200 students, and the school had a sixth form, which was closed in 1990 along with all other local sixth forms.[6]
It became an academy in 2007, sponsored by theDavid Ross Education Trust.[7] The academy was officially opened byThe Duchess of Cambridge on 5 March 2013; she was carrying out engagements in Grimsby on the day.[8]
The sixth form was re-established under the headship of Nicholas O'Sullivan, who was in post from 2007 to 2011; his obituary noted that the sixth form had been created despite "the catchment of acute deprivation".[9] Martin Vickers said that the school'scatchment area "includes the East Marsh ward of Grimsby, which is ranked among the 20th poorest wards in the country by various socioeconomic indicators".[10] In 2007, the school was described in research as one of a group of schools "facing exceptionally challenging circumstances", because of local levels of unemployment and the high proportion of adults in the area who had no qualifications.[11] The then headteacher said that pupils were oftenmalnourished.[6] Improvement work at the school included marketing, counselling and pastoral care, as well as work on teaching quality.[6]
As a comprehensive, the school came in the bottom thirty schools in England atGCSE. In 2000, it came in the bottom forty. Around 6% gained 5 good GCSE grades.
In 2009, as an academy, around 40% gain five good GCSEs – the fourth best in Grimsby.
Carr Lane School in Grimsby, which later became the Havelock School
Largely thanks to his mother's efforts he gained a place at the Havelock School, Grimsby, after failing his 11-plus. "If this had not happened, I would not have had the academic career that I enjoyed subsequently," he said
