The Dukeries Academy

The Dukeries Academy (formerly The Dukeries Comprehensive School and then The Dukeries College and Complex) is a secondary school, community college and leisure centre situated in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire.

The Dukeries Academy
Address
Whinney Lane

New Ollerton
,
Nottinghamshire

England
Coordinates53.2093°N 1.0004°W / 53.2093; -1.0004
Information
TypeAcademy
Local authorityNottinghamshire
Department for Education URN139062 Tables
OfstedReports
GenderMixed
Age11 to 19
Websitehttp://www.dukeries.attrust.org.uk/page/default.asp?title=Home&pid=1

It offers education for students aged 11–19 and is a specialist technology college. Adult education and Whitewater also offer a range of level 2 and 3 courses, including GCSEs and BTECs. Opened in September 1964 as, with Kirkby in Ashfiled Comprehensive School, the first Nottinghamshire County Comprehensives - Fairham Comprehensive School in Nottingham had preceded them, then the School immediately proved to be a high quality "Community Provision" at a time when the village and neighbouring Edwinstowe and Bilsthorpe - who provided young people as pupils at the school - were thriving mining communities. The School/College/Academy therefore celebrates its 49th anniversary in 2014.

The Dukeries has been visited by Ed Balls,[1] Sebastian Coe[2] and Gordon Brown.[3]

Balls described it as "a school of the 21st century". The school received a "satisfactory" grade after an OFSTED inspection.[4] The school became an academy on 1 January 2013, and was renamed The Dukeries Academy. The Dukeries offers, a gym, a theatre, horse riding, old peoples centre, on-site counselling, a construction block, an astro-turf pitch, a youth club and a fire service training centre.

In 2009, The Dukeries was included in controversial plans to cut funding. Nottinghamshire County Council proposed to cut £380,000 of the schools budget to save money.[5] There is a current campaign underway to stop these cuts from happening.

References
  1. "Government minister opens £1.6m Dukeries centre". Johnston Publishing Ltd. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  2. Archived September 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Video Gordon Brown on MP expenses at Ollerton's Dukeries College van Mansfield - Myspace Video". Vids.myspace.com. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  4. "Find an inspection report" (PDF). Ofsted. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  5. Published on Thursday 19 November 2009 17:25 (19 November 2009). "Dukeries chiefs slam county council cuts - Local - Mansfield and Ashfield Chad". Chad.co.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
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