Sandown High School
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| Motto | Strive, Believe, Achieve |
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| Established | 2011 (as Sandown Bay Academy) |
| Type | Academy |
| Executive Principal | Claire Charlemagne (Resigned with effect from 31 August 2017) |
| Chair of Governors |
Peter Harris Chelsea Mace |
| Location |
The Fairway Sandown Isle of Wight PO36 9JH England 50°39′29″N 1°09′58″W / 50.658°N 1.166°WCoordinates: 50°39′29″N 1°09′58″W / 50.658°N 1.166°W |
| DfE URN | 136751 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 1,252 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–19 |
| Houses | 4 |
| Colours | 4 |
| Website | www |
Peter Harris
Sandown Bay Academy, formerly Sandown High School, is an academy status secondary school located in Sandown on the Isle of Wight, England. Since 2012 it has been sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust
Education at the current school site began with Sandown Grammar School, which had a long and distinguished history during the twentieth century. The school became Sandown High School in 1970 when the former Sandown Grammar and Fairway Secondary Modern schools merged to form Sandown High School. In 2005 Sandown High School became a sports college and regularly topped all the Isle of Wight sporting leagues and events.
In 2008 it was decided that the Isle of Wight education system should be changed from a three tier system to a two tier system, in line with the majority of schools in England and Wales, and that the new schools should be academies. A range of organisations were invited to bid to run the new Secondary school academies. Academies Enterprise Trust (AET) competed against the Island Innovation Trust and the "East Wight Educational Trust" and presented a proposal for a high achieving outstanding academy. AET was subsequently awarded the contract to run the new Sandown Bay Academy. It opened as an AET school with 2005 pupils, making it one of the largest schools in England at that time. Due to the very large number of pupils, the site of nearby former Sandham Middle School was incorporated into the site and called "North School."
The last headteacher of Sandown High School and first Principal of Sandown Bay Academy was John Bradshaw. The Principal of Sandown Bay Academy from Sept 2012 until November 2013 was Shaheen Khan Jones. She was replaced by Eric Jackson who was Principal until Sept 2015, when Claire Charlemagne took over, until her resignation for Sept 2017.
The national measure of school performance until 2015 was the proportion of pupils gaining 5 GCSEs A-C grade (including English and Maths). From 2016 the measure of school performance changed to "progress 8." Both sets of data are included in the following table.
Five years after AET took over Sandown Bay Academy, in order to bring about "world class learning outcomes" the GCSE 2016 results for Sandown Bay Academy are the worst ever achieved by the school and the new performance measure of "progress 8" places the school amongst the 10% of lowest achieving schools in England.
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