Accrington Academy

Accrington Academy

Motto	The Best in Everyone
Established	2008
Type	Academy
Principal	Andy O'Brien
Founder	United Learning
Location	Queens Road West Accrington Lancashire BB5 4FF England Coordinates: 53°45′41″N 2°22′21″W / 53.761419°N 2.372472°W / 53.761419; -2.372472
Local authority	n/a
DfE number	???/6905
DfE URN	135649 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1150
Gender	coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	Athena, Caerus, Zeus and Metis
Colours	blue white black
Former name	Moorhead High School
Website	Accrington Academy

Accrington Academy is a mixed 11-18 Academy in Accrington, Lancashire.

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.^[1]

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.

Notable alumni

Mina Anwar, actress
Dominic Brunt, actor
Martin Fearon, footballer
Julie Hesmondhalgh, actress

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
Eric Hinchliffe, nuclear scientist
Prof Leslie Howarth OBE, Henry Overton Wills Professor of Mathematics from 1964-76 at the University of Bristol
Eric Kinder, Chairman from 1990-7 of Smith & Nephew
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 from 1990-6 of Holiday Inn Worldwide
James Prescott CBE, Professor of Agricultural Chemistry from 1924-55 at the University of Adelaide and Director from 1938-55 of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute
Prof John Roskell, Professor of Medieval History from 1962-79 at the University of Manchester and from 1952-62 at the University of Nottingham
Vincent Taylor, biblical scholar
Sir John Tomlinson CBE, bass
John Wallwork, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon since 1981 at Papworth Hospital
Ilyas Khan 1978 Chairman of Leonard Cheshire and financier of Accrington Stanley Football Club

Accrington High School for Girls

Hazel Townson, children's author
Jeanette Winterson, author

References

↑ Accrington Academy Update vol.1 (Spring 2008)

External links

Schools in Lancashire

Primary schools	Maharishi School

Secondary schools	Academy@Worden Accrington Academy Albany Academy Alder Grange Community School All Hallows RC High School All Saints' RC School Archbishop Temple School Ashton Community Science College Balshaw's CE High School Baines School Bishop Rawstorne CE Academy Blessed Trinity RC College Bowland High Broughton High School Brownedge St Mary's RC High School Burscough Priory Science College Cardinal Allen Catholic High School Carnforth High School Carr Hill High School Central Lancaster High School Christ The King RC Maths & Computing College Colne Park High School Colne Primet Academy Corpus Christi RC High School Fearns Community School Fleetwood High School Fulwood Academy Garstang Community Academy Haslingden High School Hameldon Community College Heysham High School Hodgson Academy The Hollins Technology College Holy Cross RC High School Hutton Grammar School Lathom High School Leyland St Mary's RC High School Longridge High School Lostock Hall Academy Lytham St. Annes High School Maharishi School Marsden Heights Community College Millfield High School Moor Park High School Morecambe High School Mount Carmel RC High School Norden High School Ormskirk School Our Lady Queen Of Peace Catholic Engineering College Our Lady's Catholic College Our Lady's Catholic High School Parklands High School Pendle Vale College Penwortham Girls' High School Penwortham Priory Academy Preston Muslim Girls High School Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School Ribblesdale High School Ripley St Thomas CE High School St. Aidan's CE Technology College St Bede's, Lytham St Annes St Bede's, Ormskirk St Cecilia's RC High School St Christopher's CE High School St Michael's CE High School Ss John Fisher and Thomas More RC High School Shuttleworth College Sir John Thursby Community College Southlands High School Tarleton Academy Unity College Up Holland High School Visions Learning Trust Walton-Le-Dale High School Wellfield High School West Craven High School Whitworth Community High School

Grammar schools	Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Lancaster Girls' Grammar School Lancaster Royal Grammar School

Independent schools	Arnold KEQMS Ashbridge School Heathland School Kirkham Grammar School Moorland School Oakhill College Rossall School St Annes College Grammar School Scarisbrick Hall School Stonyhurst College

Further education	Accrington and Rossendale College Burnley College Cardinal Newman College Lancashire College Lancaster and Morecambe College Nelson and Colne College Preston's College Runshaw College

United Learning schools

Academies	Accrington Academy Barnsley Academy Carter Community School Goresbrook School John Smeaton Academy Kettering Buccleuch Academy Lambeth Academy Manchester Academy Midhurst Rother College North Oxfordshire Academy Northampton Academy Nova Hreod Academy Paddington Academy Richard Rose Central Academy Richard Rose Morton Academy Salford City Academy Seahaven Academy Sheffield Park Academy Sheffield Springs Academy Shoreham Academy Stockport Academy Swindon Academy The Regis School Walthamstow Academy William Hulme's Grammar School

Emmanuel Schools	Bede Academy Emmanuel College The King's Academy Trinity Academy

Independent schools	Arnold KEQMS Ashford School Bournemouth Collegiate School Caterham School Guildford High School Hampshire Collegiate School Hull Collegiate School Lincoln Minster School Sunderland High School Surbiton High School