Winterton Community Academy


Winterton Community Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Winterton, North Lincolnshire, England.
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Admissions

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

History

Secondary modern

The school began as Winterton Secondary Modern School. Grammar school for Winterton was Scunthorpe Grammar School.

Comprehensive

It became comprehensive with the rest of Scunthorpe in 1968. The new comprehensive was for Alkborough, Appleby, Roxby-cum-Risby, West Halton, Whitton, and Winteringham. After further enlargement it would be for 300 more children, to include Flixborough and Burton-upon-Stather. It cost £147,309 for 450 to 750 places.
Phase 1 was built in 1972. Mr A Ecclestone was headteacher from 1961 to 1978, who had attended
St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Previously a Community [school (England and Wales)|community school] administered by North Lincolnshire Council, Winterton Comprehensive School converted to academy status on 1 October 2012 and was renamed Winterton Community Academy.

Notable former pupils

Winterton Secondary Modern School