Garforth Academy

Garforth Academy is a secondary school and sixth form for pupils aged 11 - 18 and is located on Lidgett Lane in Garforth, West Yorkshire, England.The school been awarded the Artsmark, Investors in People Award,, Schools Achievement Award,, Education Extra award,, Sportsmark, and Beacon School status, and OFSTED described the school in 2010 as an "outstanding school".In literatureIn the book The Modfather, David Lines describes his time at the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s in great detail. He described the school as looking like a cold hard slab of institutionalised concrete and, after leaving a leafy Nottinghamshire grammar school, described his shock on his first day of the pupils wearing 'menacing boots' and watching his classmates 'literally kicking seven shades out of each other'.Academic performanceAs a result of improvements in the previous decade, the headteacher, Paul Edwards, received a knighthood in the New Year Honours 2009 for services to local and national education. The school has since got a new headteacher, Andrew Woodhouse.