Established September 2010 Religion Roman Catholic DfE number 812/4000 Number of students 850 Gender Mixed-sex education | Type Academy Principal Louise Wilson Phone +44 1472 328888 Founded September 2010 | |
Location Chatsworth Place
Cleethorpes
North East Lincolnshire
DN35 9NF
England Address Chatsworth Pl, Cleethorpes DN35 9NF, UK Similar St Marys Primary School, St Joseph's Catholic Primary V, St Mary's Catholic High Sch, Humberst Academy, Oasis Academy Wintringh Profiles | ||
Holy Family Catholic Academy (known locally as HFCA) opened in September 2013 and is an Academy sponsored by the Nottingham Roman Catholic Diocese Education Service (NRCDES).
HFCA was preceded by St Andrew’s College a joint church school that opened in September 2010 following the amalgamation of Matthew Humberstone C of E School and St Mary’s Catholic High School. Both predecessor schools to St Andrew’s College were supported by the National Challenge and were deemed to be Grade 3 schools in their last Ofsted Section 5 inspection reports, in 2009 and 2007 respectively.
HFCA in contrast, was judged GOOD in all four categories inspected under the Ofsted framework in its first inspection in June 2015.
The Ofsted report for the Academy provides clear validation of the strong and rapid improvement across all aspects of the school’s work in the period since it became an academy. This strong and rapid improvement has been further validated by the outcome of the Academy’s first Diocesan Canonical Inspection of November 2015 when it was also judged a GOOD CATHOLIC SCHOOL.
Student numbers are rising in excess of predictions and the reputation of the Academy as a small school with a big heart where every student is known individually and nurtured to be the best they can be both academically and personally so that they can teach others to be the same.
The Mission of the Academy, taken from an address of Pope Francis to young people makes explicit the ambition and aspiration of the Academy for its students: 'Do not bury your talents; the gifts that God has given you. Do not be afraid to dream of great things’.