East Point Academy

East Point Academy is an academy located in the Kirkley district of Lowestoft, in the English county of Suffolk. It educates children from ages 11 to 16.HistoryBefore September 2011, the school was known as Kirkley Community High School being administered by Suffolk County Council, before converting to academy status as part of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).In December 2014, the Norfolk based Inspiration Trust formally took over the running of the academy and appointed Kevin Blakey as Principal. The main reasons (see 2014 takeover section below) behind this was the failure of the AET to move the academy out of special measures and that the IT were better geographically placed with its Norfolk base to continuously improve the academy, compared to the relative isolation under AET and its other academies. The school will be refurbished with funding from the government which was secured by the AET before it was taken over by Inspiration TrustAccording to the most recent inspection in March 2015 (3 months after the IT had acquired the academy) the school leadership was rated as "good" although other criteria "require improvement". Overall the academy has improved from being rated as "Inadequate" to "Requires Improvement".