Hans Price Academy

Wyvern Community School


Religion	Non-denominational
Principal	Tony Searle^[1]
Location	Marchfields Way Weston-super-Mare Somerset BS23 3QP England
DfE URN	136708 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Students	725 as of January 2012
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–16
Website	.uk.org.hanspricewww

The Hans Price Academy, formerly known as Wyvern Community School, is a secondary school with academy status in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. The school, which has specialist Sports College status, has 725 students between the ages of 11 and 16 years as of January 2012.

In 2009, 31% of the pupils at the school achieved 5 or more GCSE passes at grade C or above including mathematics and English, and a contextual value added (CVA) figure of 1002.1.^[2] In 2010, the GCSE score improved to 35%, but was still the lowest in North Somerset,^[3] and was below the local authority average of 56.1% and national average of 53.4%.

In 2009, plans to turn the school into an academy were revealed.^[4] On 1 May 2011, Wyvern School became the Hans Price Academy,^[5] named after local Victorian architect Hans Price. The academy is now run by educational charity Cabot Learning Foundation, which plans to spend £14 million transforming the site.

Alumni

Rupert Graves, actor.^[6]

References

^ Hans Price Academy - Contact
^ "Wyvern Community School". BBC. 15 January 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
^ "Secondary schools and colleges in North Somerset". 2010 Secondary School League Tables. BBC News. 12 January 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
^ "Wyvern academy plans progress". Weston Mercury. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
^ "Weston's Wyvern School wins funding for academy plan".
^ Brockes, Emma (22 April 2002). "Rupert bared". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 23 March 2010.

External links

Official website

Schools in Somerset¹

Primary	Bridgwater College Academy

Middle	Fairlands Middle School Hugh Sexey CE Middle School

Secondary	Ansford Academy Backwell School Bath Community Academy Beechen Cliff School Bishop Fox's Community School Blue School Bridgwater College Academy Broadlands Academy Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College Brymore Academy Bucklers Mead Community School Castle School Chew Valley School Chilton Trinity School Churchill Academy Clevedon School Court Fields School Crispin School Frome Community College Gordano School Hans Price Academy Haygrove School Hayesfield Girls' School Heathfield Community School Holyrood Academy Huish Episcopi Academy King Alfred School King Arthur's Community School Kings of Wessex Academy Kingsmead School Nailsea School Norton Hill School Oldfield School Preston School Priory Community School Ralph Allen School Robert Blake Science College St Dunstan's Community School St Gregory's RC College St Katherine's School St Mark's CE School Sexey's School Somervale School Stanchester Academy Taunton Academy Wadham School Wellsway School Westfield Academy Whitstone School West Somerset Community College Worle Community School Writhlington School

Independent (preparatory)	All Hallows Preparatory School King's Hall School Millfield Preparatory School

Independent (secondary)	Bruton School for Girls Chilton Cantelo School Downside School King Edward's School, Bath King's College, Taunton King's School, Bruton Kingswood School Millfield Monkton Combe School Park School Prior Park College Queen's College, Taunton Royal High School, Bath Sidcot School Taunton School Wellington School Wells Cathedral School

Special	Newbury Manor School North Hill House School Shapwick School Three Ways School

Former	Bluecoat School City of Bath Technical School Ladymead Community School Ravenscroft School Taunton Grammar School The St Augustine of Canterbury School Sexey's Grammar School St Brandon's School Weston-super-Mare Grammar School for Boys

Sixth Form and FE Colleges	Bridgwater College City of Bath College Norton Radstock College Richard Huish College Somerset College of Arts and Technology Strode College Weston College Yeovil College

¹includes Bath & North East Somerset and North Somerset

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