Winterbourne Academy Address High Street Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire England Information Type Academy Established 1957 Trust The Olympus Academy Trust Department for Education URN 135944 Tables Ofsted Reports Head teacher Mr. J Beardmore Gender Mixed Age 11 to 18 Enrolment 1, 808 Website The Winterbourne Academy, is a co-educational school in South Gloucestershire the school is in the village of Winterbourne in South Gloucestershire, on the outskirts of Bristol, England. History [ edit] The Ridings High School was founded in 1957. It was opened by the then Member of Parliament for Bristol South East, Tony Benn. Academy proposal [ edit] In 2007, Rob Gibson (Headteacher at the time) was invited by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to consider a move to Academy status as the Lead (non-financial) sponsor in a Hard Federation, incorporating King Edmund Community School in Yate. As a result, in September 2009, The Ridings' Federation of Academies was established with two independent academies, Winterbourne International Academy (formerly 'The Ridings High School' and the lead sponsor) and Yate International Academy (formerly King Edmund Community School).
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