Brompton Academy
Brompton Academy is an 11–18 mixed, secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Gillingham, Kent, England. It is part of the University of Kent Academies Trust.
History
Brompton Academy was originally called The Great Lines School. It was built in the 1950s adjacent to the Great Lines, in Gillingham. Gillingham was a military town that supported the Royal Engineers and their barracks and the Chatham Naval Dockyard. As a consequence families were very mobile. It opened with 270 pupils in April 1957, as a secondary modern school and the first co-educational school in Gillingham. In June 1959, it became Upbury Manor school and was officially re-opened by actress Dame Edith Evans O.B.E.University of Kent Academies Trust
It later became New Brompton College and is now known as Brompton Academy. The Brompton Academy opened in 2010. The University of Kent is a 'Lead Sponsor' of the Academy, because of its ability to help provide support for the Academy's science specialism. Medway Council is the co-sponsor.From 2017, Chatham [Grammar School for Girls] and Brompton Academy's sixth-forms have merged into one big sixth-form named the University of Kent Academies Trust. Both schools are a part of the newly formed Academies Trust, of which the CEO is Mr. A. Osborne.