| Bucklers Mead Academy | |
| Coordinates: | 50.9566°N -2.6233°W |
| Motto: | Educating with care to succeed |
| Established: | 1957 (school built) |
| Type: | Academy |
| Head: | Mark Lawrence[1] |
| Specialist: | Technology College |
| Address: | St John's Road |
| City: | Yeovil |
| County: | Somerset |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | BA21 4NH (SAT NAV BA21 4FE) |
| Ofsted: | Good |
| Urn: | 137193 |
| Enrolment: | 906 as of 2014[2] |
| Gender: | Mixed |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 16 |
| Houses: | Hawks (Blue), Eagles (Red), Falcons (Yellow), Kestrels (Green) |
| Colours: | Purple & Black |
| Website: | http://bucklersmead.com/ |
Buckler's Mead Academy is a secondary school and specialist Technology College in Yeovil, Somerset, England. As of 2014, it has 907 students between the ages of 11 and 16.[2] The school offers a range of subjects including art, beliefs and values, citizenship, drama, geography, history, mathematics, modern foreign languages, music, physical education and technology. In August 2011, the school became an academy.
The school is split like most other secondary schools in England into five-year groups ranging from 7 through to 11. Each year group contains approximately 200 students, separated into six groups of around 30 students called tutor groups. Each tutor group has a form tutor. Tutor groups meet once a day for registration, in the morning at the very beginning of the school day, 8:30. Every year group is led by a year coordinator.
As of 2021, the school's most recent inspection by Ofsted was in 2019, with a judgement of Inadequate.[3]