Ridgewood School

Ridgewood School
Motto "Specialists in Engineering, Related Technologies & Applied Learning "
Established 20 October 1968
Type Academy
Religion Non-denominational
Headteacher Mrs M Dunn
Location Barnsley Road
Scawsby
Doncaster
South Yorkshire
DN5 7UB
England Coordinates: 53°32′19″N 1°10′57″W / 53.538688°N 1.182446°W
Local authority Doncaster
DfE URN 137603 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1,351
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Colours Black, Blue
Website Ridgewood School

Ridgewood School is an academy in Scawsby, Doncaster, England. The school gained academy status in October 2013, and is also a specialist Engineering College.

Ridgewood School accepts pupils from the surrounding areas of Sprotbrough, Sprotbrough village (or Upper Sprotbrough) with Copley and Richmond Hill Primary leading on to Ridgewood, Cusworth with Saltersgate Infants and Junior School leading onto Ridgewood, Barnburgh and Marr with Barnburgh Primary leading to Ridgewood, and Scawsby with Rosedale Primary leading onto Ridgewood. Pupils from Upper Sprotbrough who previously attended Outwood (formerly Adwick Secondary School), are now in the catchment area of Ridgewood. Ridgewood School performs average in Doncaster's league tables for GCSE and other results, often around the middle of league table schools.

The school caters for 6th formers with courses including engineering. It competes in sporting and non-sporting events including fishing, track and field running, cross country, football and netball.

Ridgewood School neighbours New Stone Hill School, a special school which was formerly the Anchorage School, and before that, a teacher training college. It has an open playing field towards the back of the site alongside Ridgewood's open P.E. fields, which are both surrounded by open fields used for agriculture. To one side of the playing field is an abandoned railway line which runs through Scawsby and Sprotbrough which is hard to spot from the main road Barnsley Road.

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