Appleton Academy Explained

Appleton Academy
Type:Academy
Trust:Exceed Academies Trust
Head Label:Executive Head
Head:Helen Jones
Address:Woodside Road
Location:Wyke
City:City of Bradford
Postcode:BD12 8AL
County:West Yorkshire
Country:England
Coordinates:53.7426°N -1.7712°W
Local Authority:Bradford
Urn:145173
Ofsted:yes
Gender:Mixed
Lower Age:3
Upper Age:16
Website:http://www.appletonacademy.co.uk/

Appleton Academy is a mixed all-through school for pupils aged 3 to 16. It is located in Wyke in the City of Bradford, in the English county of West Yorkshire.[1] The school is named after Sir Edward Victor Appleton, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947.

The school was formed in 2009 from the merger of Wyke Manor School (secondary school) and High Fernley Primary School. The school moved into new buildings in 2012.[2] It is an academy that is sponsored by the Exceed Academies Trust.

Appleton Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Appleton Academy. appletonacademy.co.uk.
  2. Web site: Appleton Academy. bradfordcollegeeducationtrust.co.uk. 13 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214032230/http://www.bradfordcollegeeducationtrust.co.uk/appleton-academy/. 14 February 2015. dead.