Accrington Academy

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Established 2008 Principal Andy O'Brien DfE number ???/6905 Founded 2008 Number of students 1,150		Type Academy Local authority n/a Phone +44 1254 304300 Motto The Best in Everyone Founder United Learning

Location Queens Road West Accrington Lancashire BB5 4FF England Address Queens Rd W, Accrington BB5 4FF, UK Profiles Twitter

Accrington Academy is a mixed 11-18 Academy in Accrington, Lancashire. Swimming Club Pioneer 79 use the swimming pool at Accrington Academy

Admissions

It has designated specialisms in Sports and Mathematics. It is situated in the centre of Accrington. Accrington St Christopher's C of E High is nearby to the west.

History

The school, run by United Learning, opened on 1 September 2008 on the site of the former Accrington Moorhead Sports College, itself the successor Moorhead High School which was the successor of the one-time Accrington High School for Girls. All pupils previously at Moorhead automatically transferred to the new school, which will have sixth form provision from September 2009.

Former schools

Accrington Grammar School had around 500 boys and 100 in the sixth form in the 1970s. Accrington High School for Girls had around 600 girls. Accrington Moorhead High School was on Cromwell Avenue off Queen's Road West.The school was founded in 1895 on Blackburn Rd, Accrington as a 'Technical School' In 1968, it moved to the Moorhead site. In 1975, following the Labour government's educational reforms, it ceased to exist.

Accrington Grammar School

Sir Kenneth Barnes CB, Permanent Secretary from 1976-82 of the Department of Employment

Jim Bowen, comedian, and former host of Bullseye

Harold Davenport, mathematician, known for the Davenport–Schinzel sequence, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics from 1958-69 at the University of Cambridge

Sir James Drake CBE, civil engineer, designed the UK's first motorway when with Lancashire County Council

Graeme Fowler, cricketer

Harry Hill (cyclist)

Ron Hill, runner

Prof Leslie Howarth OBE, Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics, University of Bristol (1964-76)

Eric Kinder, Chairman, Smith & Nephew (1990-97)

Prof John Lamb CBE, James Watt Professor of Electrical Engineering from 1961-91 at the University of Glasgow, President from 1970-2 of the British Society of Rheology

Bryan Langton CBE, Chairman and Chief Executive, Holiday Inn Worldwide (1990-96)

James Prescott CBE, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry from 1924-55 at the University of Adelaide and Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute (1938-55)

Prof John Roskell, Professor of Medieval History, University of Manchester (1962-79), and the University of Nottingham (1952-62)

Vincent Taylor, biblical scholar

Sir John Tomlinson CBE, bass