Sidney Stringer Academy

Sidney Stringer Academy - formerly Sidney Stringer School, Sidney Stringer Community Technology College, Sidney Stringer School and Community College - is a coeducational academy school for pupils aged 11 - 18 in Hillfields, Coventry, England.HistorySidney Stringer first opened as a School and Community College in 1972 as the first urban community school in England.The school was formed from the merger of two secondary modern schools - Frederick Bird on Swan Lane (became a primary school) and Broad Heath on Broad Street. It was one of the first Community Colleges in the 1970s and one of the first Technology Colleges in the 1990s.The school was named after Alderman Sidney Stringer, a former mayor of Coventry who dedicated himself to the rebuilding of the city after the devastation of the second world war.Today the school continues to serve an area close to the city centre with the most diverse population of any in the city. Numbers of students on roll, which fell to an all-time low of around 670 in the 1990s, have risen rapidly in recent years.About the SchoolSidney Stringer Academy caters for 1300 students aged 11-19 including a large sixth form. The Academy opened in September 2010 and moved into a new building in 2011.The school has been a Specialist School for Mathematics and Computing since 2004. Sidney Stringer Academy is in the top 2% of all schools in the country for student progress. The Mathematics department is in the TOP 1%, and Humanities in the top 3%. English in the top 6% and Science and MFL in the top 11%.OfstedThe 2013 Ofsted report gave Sidney Stringer Academy outstanding in all areas. The academy was also praised for the quality of its teaching which is consistently good or outstanding, where students “relish the imaginatively planned, vibrant lessons provided.” 95% of lessons were judged to be good or better and 45% were outstanding. The lead inspector told us that this was the best teaching and learning profile that he had ever seen.