The King’s Academy was founded in 2003 in the second year of the City Academies Initiative. Attracted by the reputation of Emmanuel College in Gateshead, Middlesbrough’s Local Authority approached Sir Peter Vardy to join them in the reorganisation of secondary education in the town which led to The King’s replacing Brackenhoe and Coulby Newham Schools as well as embracing the students coming from the recently-closed Beverley School for the Deaf.
The King’s opened as a full 11-16 school of 1100 students, inheriting all of the young people from the predecessor schools and opening its first Sixth Form in September 2004. Within a year, the GCSE results in the Academy were 50% better than previously and by the Summer of 2005, the GCSE pass rate had doubled. Now, in 2007, the figure has risen to 47% against the predecessor average of 22% in 2003. Specialising in Business and Enterprise, the Academy is over-subscribed and has been recognised as being a “good school with many outstanding features” by OfSTED in its first formal Inspection in 2005.
Perhaps the Academy’s greatest pleasure is to see the inclusive manner in which its students operate, with almost 100 students having Statements of Special Educational Needs for Hearing and Visual Impairment, Deafness, Blindness and Moderate Learning Difficulties. Inspired by our Christian ethos which values everyone as equal in the sight of God, we are ‘humbly proud’ of what happens in our school and are delighted to welcome you to this website introduction of what The King’s is all about.
