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498:. The Park Road site was demolished completely (along with the neighbouring Wath Park Infant School – a direct descendant of Park Road Infant School, where the secondary school was first based – which closed and merged with Wath Central Junior School to form Wath Central Primary School) and was replaced by housing. As a result of the rebuild, the school became single-site for the first time since the 1960s (though a road divides the main site from some of the playing fields). In 2008, the rebuilding was fully completed with the addition of a public 378: 494:(PFI) initiative. A new building on Sandygate, opened after Easter 2005, now makes up the majority of the school accommodation. Some parts of the school dating back from the 1950s (such as the hall and sports hall) survive, though none of the older 1930s buildings were retained. The loss of the oldest buildings was not without controversy, particularly the traditional 1930s part of the school which was set around two 42: 849: 788: 517:
construction. In 2014, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council chose not to fund the building because a third of Wath's students do not live within the local authority's boundaries, meaning the building would not, in the council's eyes, benefit the people of Rotherham enough. The funding therefore went to a similar building at
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in 1985, and eventually reached 1,750 students. Numbers were at this level until as recently as 2007. However, further rises in student numbers (partially the sixth form, which has swelled from 300 to 400 students) have taken the total number of students to over 1,900: 300 students in each of Years 7
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in 1972 and renamed Wath Comprehensive School in 1974 (which coincided with the school coming under the control of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council). The Park Road site initially continued to be used for the secondary modern stream, but later became a wing for first form (later known as Year 7)
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as the academy sponsor in July 2017. Originally, the school was due to become an academy on 1 April 2018. After being delayed 12 times, the school finally academised – a full year late – on 1 April 2019 and became known as Wath Academy. It immediately became the largest and highest performing school
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Floors are bowing and lifting in the IT rooms. In the sixth form common room, which is insufficient for the number of students, roof slates are missing, causing ceilings to collapse during wet weather. The roof also leaks in the girls' changing rooms, where pupils often have to move clothing to keep
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Over time, the school's buildings, on all three sites, aged badly. In its 1997 report on the school, Ofsted described the accommodation as 'quite appalling', 'debilitating' and 'some of the worst working conditions the inspection team has seen'. The Inspectors highlighted 'damp seeping through the
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Wath Secondary School rapidly outgrew its original accommodation, which led to lessons taking place in a number of borrowed locations scattered throughout Wath-upon-Dearne. To rectify this, the school moved into new, purpose-built accommodation on Sandygate in 1930. The institution became known as
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for the building, but this was withdrawn as part of cuts in 2016. Later in 2016, the local council proposed an extension of five classrooms, in return for the school taking on 20 additional students a year. After many delays, construction of this extension began in July 2018 and was completed in
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inspections in September 1993, the school has undergone seven full inspections. This includes the highly controversial inspection of 2017, where the school's results – officially classed as 'average' by the Department for Education – were inexplicably called 'dire' by Ofsted. As Wath Academy is
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On 31 December 1998, two students of the school, aged 14 and 15, died in a meningitis outbreak. Other students at the school were given antibiotics as a precaution. This was followed by an immunisation programme for all 1,700 students, which delayed the school reopening for lessons after the
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Less than a decade after it was built, the school had already outgrown its new building. The school has an official capacity of 1,740 students, but numbers have grown to over 1,900. Plans were drawn up for a 12 classroom overspill building, but the school has twice been denied the funds for
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In 2017, the school's Progress 8 score, which measures the progress made by students between the end of Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 4 (GCSE), was +0.07 (above the national average of -0.03, putting the school in the top third of the country). Its Attainment 8 score, which converts
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and other qualification grades into points, was 47.1 (above the national average of 44.6). The percentage of students achieving GCSE grades 9–5 in English and Maths was 41% (above the national average of 39.6%). The percentage of students achieving the
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Following the controversial Ofsted inspection in March 2017, the school was forced to academise (and leave its current foundation trust) against its will. The regional schools commissioner proposed
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There is also a school council, which contributes to the decisions made by the head and speaks on behalf of all the students in all years. The school is within the Maltby learning trust.
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The school was founded in 1923 as Wath Secondary School. Initially, the school was situated on Park Road, sharing the building of Park Road Infants School. The school was controlled by
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it from getting wet. Changing accommodation overall is insufficient. Many paths and steps are in a dangerous state of repair. No pupils should be expected to endure such conditions.
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to 11 (rising to 320 from the 2018 intake and 330 from the 2019 intake onwards), with 200 in each year of the sixth form. As of 2013, the school is the 24th largest in England.
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students. Due to further expansion, the school also occupied a corner of Wath Central Junior School site on Festival Road for a period, making a total of three sites.
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showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate
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walls and ceilings', 'decaying door and window fittings', 'areas of crumbling asphalt and potholes' and 'falling plaster', before going on to conclude:
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The school was awarded language college status in 2001 and appended this to its name to become Wath Comprehensive School: A Language College.
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The school opened with 77 students in 1923, though had 520 students by 1929 (making it the fourth largest school in the West Riding
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was 35% (well above the national average of 19.7%), with entries for the EBacc being 70% (double the national average of 35%).
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Wath Grammar School in 1931. The school was expanded with many new buildings and extensions in the early 1950s.
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Jon Taylor, September 2016–August 2020 (role name changed from 'headteacher' to 'principal' in September 2019)
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area). Numbers then grew gradually, though were boosted to around 1,500 in the 1960s due to the closing of
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The school's results, whether measuring progress or raw attainment, are all above national averages.
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Christmas holiday by two days. The school itself was not thought to be the source of the outbreak.
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Petersen, George B. (10 August 2011). "Kenneth Burton. 26 June 1926 — 22 November 2010".
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Eagleton, Ellie; Jackson, Emily; Linney, Jacob (September–October 2016).
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Derek E. Kirby, February 1991–August 1997 (acting until end of June 1991)
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legally a new institution, it received its first inspection in 2023.
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Wath Comprehensive School: A Language College – Inspection report
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Academy in Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England
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Jim Chisholm, May 2003–December 2003 (acting headteacher)
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Wath Comprehensive School: A Language College (2001–2019)
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Sylvia Swift, May 1954–April 1955 (acting headmistress)
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Eric Sampson, September 2002–May 2003 (died in office)
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In January 1964 the school absorbed the neighbouring
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Leach, Esther; Gregoriadis, Linus (4 January 1999).
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The school was rebuilt from 2003 to 2005, under the
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