Manchester Academy (Moss Side)
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| Established | 2003 |
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| Type | Academy |
| Religion | Christian |
| Executive Principal and Senior Partner | Mr Andy Griffin |
| Founder | United Learning |
| Location |
Moss Lane East Moss Side Manchester M14 4PX England Coordinates: 53°27′33″N 2°14′02″W / 53.4591°N 2.2338°W |
| Local authority | Manchester |
| DfE number | ???/352-6905 |
| DfE URN | 134224 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 912 pupils |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Former name | Ducie Central High School |
| Website | Manchester Academy |
Manchester Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school within the English Academy programme, in Moss Side, Manchester.
It is run by United Learning, a subsidiary of the United Church Schools Trust. Over half of pupils are entitled to free school meals and many are from refugee or non-English speaking backgrounds.
It is situated on Moss Lane East (B5219), near Denmark Road, with the University of Manchester nearby to the north and the Whitworth Art Gallery to the east.
Manchester Central Grammar School for Boys moved to Whitworth Street in 1900, then moved to Kirkmanshulme Lane in Longsight in 1958. It was still known as Manchester Central Grammar School for Boys. The Central High School for Girls remained at Whitworth Street. The boys' school had around 950 boys. The former site on Whitworth Street became the Mather College of Education in 1963, a teachers' training college. The boys' grammar school merged with Victoria Park Secondary School for Boys to become the comprehensive Central High School for Boys in 1967 with 1,300 boys and girls.
Ducie Technical High School had separate boys' and girls' schools, with 600 girls and 700 boys. It moved into a new building in 1964.
This became a comprehensive in 1967 when the boy's and girls' schools were merged. Ducie High School was on Lloyd Street North. It merged with the Central High School for Boys in 1982 to become Ducie Central High School for Boys.
It then moved to a site on Daisy Bank Road towards Longsight. In 1993 it had the highest truancy rate of schools in England. It moved back to Lloyd Street North in September 1995, when new buildings were built at a costs of £5 million when the headteacher was Dawn Peters. The former school site is now the Belle Vue Athletics and Leisure Centre.
It was a very multi-ethnic school, when known as Ducie High School. Prince Charles visited the school. Due to its multi-ethnicity, the pro-multi-cultural National Union of Teachers was alarmed when a Christian charity, the Church Schools Company, offered in April 2002 to take the school over. A teacher at the school said the development of a white, middle class, Christian ethos would be offensive at the multi-ethnic school. Iain Duncan Smith visited the school in October 2002.
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