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Manchester Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school within the English Academy programme, in Moss Side

Moss Side

Moss Side is an inner-city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England. It lies south of Manchester city centre and has a population of around 17,537...

, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

Admissions

It is run by the United Learning Trust

United Learning Trust

The United Learning Trust is an education charity and the largest single sponsor of academies in the UK with 20 academies and one City Technology College currently open. ULT's objective is to bring out "the best in everyone", driving educational improvement across its family of academies and...

, a subsidiary of the United Church Schools Trust

United Church Schools Trust

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. Over half of pupils are entitled to free school meal

Free school meal

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s 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

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

nearby to the north and the Whitworth Art Gallery

Whitworth Art Gallery

The Whitworth Art Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The museum is located south of the Manchester University campus, in Whitworth Park....

to the east.

History

The Manchester Central Grammar School for Boys moved to Whitworth Street in 1900, then moved to Kirkmanshulme Lane in Longsight

Longsight

Longsight is an area of Manchester, England, about south of the city centre. Its population is about 16,000.-History:Longsight has been known over the past for its gang related violence, similar to that of nearby Moss Side. Most of the violence came from tensions between 2 gangs; The Longsight...

in 1958. It was originally known as the Manchester Central Boys' High School. The Central Grammar 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.

The Ducie Technical High School had separate boys' and girls' schools, with 600 girls and 700 boys. It moved into a new building in 1964.

Comprehensive

The became comprehensive in 1967 when the boy's and girls' schools were merged. The 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

National Union of Teachers

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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. When the school closed it had some very low GCSE marks, some of the lowest in England. Iain Duncan Smith

Iain Duncan Smith

George Iain Duncan Smith is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was previously leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003...

visited the school in October 2002.

Academy

Following the construction of a new £12 million building, the school opened in September 2003 and replaced Ducie High School (formerly Ducie Technical High School) which had earlier absorbed the old Central Grammar School for Boys, established in 1900.
n.b The word Ducie was pronounced "Dyoosee" like Juicy and not Doochee.

Academic performance

Those achieving 5 or more A*-C GCSE's improved from 8% in 2004, when Manchester Academy opened, to 81% in 2010. Those achieving A*-A similarly increased from 2% in 2004 to 20% in 2010. In 2010, the GCSE pass rate was 99%..

In 2009, the Manchester Evening News

Manchester Evening News

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reported that the school had achieved an 'astounding transformation', with its predecessor once branded 'the worst in the country', it was now rated by Ofsted

Ofsted

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, the schools inspectorate, as 'outstanding'. The fact that many pupils come from diverse and often economically impoverished backgrounds led experts to state that pupils at the Academy performed much better than they would at most other schools.

Awards

Pupils from the Academy won the national 2009/10 Award, with their 'virtual business' having generated profits of over £6.3 million online. Attending a ceremony at Atlantic House, London, in March 2010, they were awarded a trophy and a cheque for £3000 from BBC

BBC

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Dragon's Den and Radio Four

BBC Radio 4

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Today

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presenter Evan Davis and Khawar Mann of Apax Partners

Apax Partners

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.

Having won the regional final of the competition, pupils from the Academy competed as national finalists in the 2010 Richard Koch Cup Debating Final, chaired by Channel Four's Krishnan Guru Murphy at the House of Lords

House of Lords

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Central Grammar School for Boys

Sir John Alcock, First flight across the Atlantic
Prof H Wright Baker, Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1939-60 at the University of Manchester
Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett
Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett
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, Labour MP from 1964-83 for Heywood and Royton
Heywood and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)
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James Bingham, Chairman from 1980-1 of Greater Manchester County Council
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Prof Eric Boyland, Professor of Biochemistry from 1948-70 at the Institute of Cancer Research
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, Royal Marsden Hospital
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, London, and expert on Molecular toxicology
Sir George Cartland
George Cartland
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CMG
Sir James Chadwick
James Chadwick
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, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
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in 1935 for discovering the neutron
Neutron
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Sir Alcon Copisarow, Chief Scientific Officer from 1962-4 to the Ministry of Technology
Prof William Alexander Deer
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, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1971-3, Master from 1966-75 of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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, and Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology from 1961-78
Robert Donat
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, actor who won the best actor Oscar
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in 1939
Sir William Downward, Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester
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from 1974-87
Reginald Eastwood, Professor of English Law from 1924-60 at the Victoria University of Manchester
Victoria University of Manchester
The Victoria University of Manchester was a university in Manchester, England. On 1 October 2004 it merged with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology to form a new entity, "The University of Manchester".-1851 - 1951:The University was founded in 1851 as Owens College,...
Prof Robert Geoffrey Edwards CBE, Professor of Human Reproduction from 1985-9 at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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and inventor, with Patrick Christopher Steptoe, of in vitro fertilisation
In vitro fertilisation
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(IVF) in 1978
Georg Eisler
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, painter
Denis Filer CBE, President from 2000-1 of the IMechE
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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, and Director General from 1988-95 of the Engineering Council
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Rt Rev George Kenneth Giggall
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OBE, Bishop of St Helena from 1973-9, and Royal Navy chaplain
Prof Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson
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, composer and Principal from 1996-2008 of the Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Northern College of Music
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Sir Henry Hardman CB, Permanent Secretary
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from 1963-4 at the Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
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Frank Hatton
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, local Labour MP from 1973-4 for Manchester Exchange
Manchester Exchange (UK Parliament constituency)
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, and from 1974-8 for Manchester Moss Side
Manchester Moss Side (UK Parliament constituency)
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Rabbie Louis Jacobs
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CBE
Prof William Johnson, Professor of Mechanics from 1975-82 at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering from 1960-75 at the University of Manchester
Sir Leslie Kirkley CBE, Director from 1961-74 of Oxfam
Oxfam
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, and largely responsible for it, and Chairman from 1977-81 of the Disasters Emergency Committee
Disasters Emergency Committee
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Arthur Knowles CBE, Secretary General from 1946-56 of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce
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Kenneth Marks
Kenneth Marks
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, Labour MP from 1967-83 for Manchester Gorton
Manchester Gorton (UK Parliament constituency)
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Cecil Melling CBE, President from 1962-3 of the IEE
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Vivian Pereira-Mendoza, Director from 1970-80 of the Polytechnic of the South Bank
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, and Principal from 1966-70 of the Borough Polytechnic (its predecessor)
Sir Derek Roberts, Provost from 1989-99 and 2002-3 of University College London
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(UCL)
Benny Rothman
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Ducie Technical High School for Boys

Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive since 1998 of Manchester City Council
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John Monks
John Monks
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, trades unionist
Sir Trefor Morris CBE, Chief Constable from 1984-90 of Hertfordshire Constabulary
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John Thaw
John Thaw
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, actor.
George Waring
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, actor
Paul Young, singer and percussionist

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Salford City Academy
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Stockport Academy
Stockport Academy
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William Hulme's Grammar School
William Hulme's Grammar School
William Hulme's Grammar School is an Academy in Whalley Range, Manchester, England.-History:WHGS was founded on 26 January 1887 as a grammar school. It ceased to be a direct grant school when the Labour government abolished the scheme, and was therefore forced to become private...

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