George Eliot Academy | |
Trust: | Midland Academies Trust |
Head Label: | Principal |
Head: | Homeira Zakary |
Address: | Raveloe Drive |
Postcode: | CV11 4QP |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.5084°N -1.4582°W |
Urn: | 137079 |
Ofsted: | yes |
Enrolment: | 786 |
Lower Age: | 11 |
Upper Age: | 16 |
Website: | https://www.georgeeliot.midlandat.co.uk/ |
George Eliot Academy (formerly The George Eliot School) is a mixed secondary school located in Nuneaton in the English county of Warwickshire.[1]
The school was established in September 1961, and became a foundation school in September 2009 in partnership with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College. In September 2011 the school converted to academy status[2] and was originally part of the Midland Academies Trust.[3] MAT were taken over by United Learning in 2023.
The school is named after George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans (1819 – 1880). Evans was novelist, journalist and translator who was born in Nuneaton, and is considered to be one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.