Type Academy Ages 11–16 Phone +44 1502 574474 | Principal Ben Driver (interim) Website ormistondenes.co.uk Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Yarmouth Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR32 4AH
England Address Yarmouth Rd, Lowestoft NR32 4AH, UK Similar East Point Academy, Sir John Leman High Sch, The Benjamin Britten M, Pakefield High School, Cliff Park Ormiston Academy Profiles | ||
Ormiston Denes Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in the northern outskirts of Lowestoft in the English county of Suffolk. It has around 850 students aged 11 to 16.
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It is situated on Yarmouth Road, the A12. It is also home to a sports training centre open to the public.
History
The school was known as Lowestoft County Grammar School, and prior to that, Lowestoft Secondary School. The original building, built in 1909–1910 by Brown and Kerr, is a Grade II Listed Building. It is built in Queen Anne style and includes the main hall.
The school became a comprehensive in 1971 and was renamed The Denes High School. In September 2004 it was designated by the Department for Education and Skills as a specialist school as a Business and Enterprise College.
In September 2011 the school became an 11 to 16 school as part of the reorganisation of schools in Lowestoft by Suffolk County Council. Pupils in years 7 and 8 joined the school after the closure of eight middle schools in Lowestoft. The opening of Lowestoft Sixth Form College also meant that the school lost its role in the Lowestoft 6th consortium, which had operated as a shared sixth form between the high schools in the town.
As The Denes High School, it was rated as 'Inadequate' in all four criteria following an Ofsted inspection in September 2012 and was placed into special measures. The headteacher, Peter Marshall, who joined the school in October 2012, led the conversion to academy status in 2013 as part of the Ormiston Academies Trust and the school was renamed Ormiston Denes Academy. The school was taken out of special measures in March 2015 but saw little improvement in its examination results in 2016. On 5 September 2016, Peter Marshall left the school after resigning to "explore other career opportunities closer to home". He was replaced by Ben Driver as interim headteacher.