East Point Academy
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| Established | 2011 (1938 as Kirkley Community High School) |
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| Type | Academy |
| Principal | Richard Dolding |
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Kirkley Run Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0UQ England 52°28′06″N 1°43′42″E / 52.46824°N 1.72840°ECoordinates: 52°28′06″N 1°43′42″E / 52.46824°N 1.72840°E |
| Local authority | Suffolk |
| DfE URN | 137134 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 630 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | East Point Academy |
East Point Academy is an academy located in the Kirkley district of Lowestoft, in the English county of Suffolk. It educates children from ages 11 to 16.
Before September 2011, the school was known as Kirkley Community High School being administered by Suffolk County Council, before converting to academy status as part of the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).
In December 2014, the Norfolk based Inspiration Trust formally took over the running of the academy and appointed Kevin Blakey as Principal. The main reasons (see 2014 takeover section below) behind this was the failure of the AET to move the academy out of special measures and that the IT were better geographically placed with its Norfolk base to continuously improve the academy, compared to the relative isolation under AET and its other academies. The school will be refurbished with funding from the government which was secured by the AET before it was taken over by Inspiration Trust
According to the most recent inspection in March 2015 (3 months after the IT had acquired the academy) the school leadership was rated as "good" although other criteria "require improvement". Overall the academy has improved from being rated as "Inadequate" to "Requires Improvement".
In July 2014, after 3 years under the management of the AET, it was announced that the academy faced a takeover from the Norfolk-based Inspiration Trust, partly due to the academy making insufficient progress towards moving out of special measures.
A spokesman for the Department for Education (DfE) said: "We have consistently demonstrated that where we find failure we will not hesitate to take action – regardless of the type of school. We are now working closely with AET and the school to ensure pupils’ education is not disrupted." A monitoring inspection in May 2014 pointed to a "steady improvement" in students’ attainment and progress, saying East Point was making "reasonable progress towards the removal of special measures".
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