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and/or disabilities, including those with a statement of special educational need, is above average. The school holds several national and local awards including the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) Award and the Investors in People standard." There is a Nursery overseen by the governing body, and judgements about its effectiveness were included in this report. The privately run Lanfranc Pre-school was inspected and reported on separately. The report stated that the quality of education provided by the school was at least satisfactory in all respects with some key aspects as good and others outstanding.
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report of June 2009 states that the school "is a specialist sports college serving a part of Croydon of considerable ethnic and cultural diversity. The school is average in size and has a significantly higher proportion of boys than girls. The proportion of pupils who have learning difficulties
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in September 2014 and was renamed The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy. However, the school continues to coordinate with Croydon London Borough Council for admissions.
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The school was founded in 1931 as a boys' school in Thornton Road, Thornton Heath, near the junction with Mitcham Road and is close to
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status to comprehensive in 1970, merging at the same time with the girls' school of the same name. It became a comprehensive
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On 9 August 1961, 34 boys and 2 members of staff from the school were killed when
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by Rosalind Jones, sister of Quentin Green, one of the victims.
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OFSTED report on 2009 inspection, retrieved 2 August 2009
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The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy featured in the 2014
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Mitcham
Croydon
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