Louth Academy is a co-educational secondary school located in Louth in the English county of Lincolnshire.
History Formation Monks' Dyke High School opened on Monks' Dyke Road in Louth in 1929. In September 2012 the school merged with Tennyson High School in Mablethorpe to form Monks' Dyke Tennyson College. The school continued to operate over both sites until August 2016 when the Mablethorpe site closed.
Tennyson Secondary School in Mablethorpe In 1955, the new secondary modern school in Mablethorpe was to cost £88,000.Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph Friday 30 September 1955, page 5 Fuller plans were made in 1960.Louth Standard Friday 7 October 1960, page 27 Construction started from May 1963.
The new headmaster from January 1965 would be Mr George Tebbutt, who was an English teacher at a Scunthorpe secondary modern school, since 1955, originally from Nottinghamshire.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Thursday 29 October 1964, page 4 The school governors decided in March 1965 that the school should be called the Tennyson Secondary School.Louth Standard Friday 2 April 1965, page 13
The school opened in April 1965, with ten classrooms, and 4.5 acres of playing fields. It cost £141,000. There were 150 children at first, to be increased to 250. The poet John Betjeman would be asked to open the school.Louth Standard Friday 23 April 1965, page 26 Lindsey Education Committee approved the name of the Tennyson Secondary School, later in 1965, and the Lord Tennyson would be asked to open the school.Lincolnshire Echo Tuesday 22 June 1965, page 13
The school would officially open on 18 November 1965.Lincolnshire Echo Monday 18 October 1965, page 1Louth Standard Friday 12 November 1965, page 16 Tennyson's great grandson, Harold Tennyson, 4th Baron Tennyson, opened the school.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 19 November 1965, page 16Louth Standard Friday 26 November 1965, page 12
In the late 1960s there were plans for comprehensive schools. With the John Spendluffe school in Alford, it would become a three-form entry middle school. The Queen Elizabeth Alford school would be the comprehensive secondary school. People complained that it would mean the end of secondary education in Mablethorpe. Comprehensive education in nearby Grimsby would subsequently not work; the sixth forms had to be removed in 1990.Grimsby Evening Telegraph Friday 11 March 1966, page 16Louth Standard Friday 18 March 1966, page 11
From the 1970s it known as Tennyson County Secondary. From 1992 it was known as the Tennyson High School.
In 2005 the school had the fifth-lowest GCSE results in England, with 10% gaining 5 good GCSEs.Times Thursday 19 January 2006 In 2006, neighbouring St Clement's College in Skegness had the third-lowest in England, with 4% gaining 5 good GCSEs. The Tennyson school had 8%.Times Tuesday 17 October 2006, page 4
The headteachers were – George Handley Tebbutt, died suddenly on 1 May 1980 aged 63, he lived in Sutton on SeaSkegness Standard Friday 9 May 1980, page 20 1990s Mr Roger KitchingLincolnshire Echo Tuesday 7 July 1998, page 2
Academy Previously a foundation school administered by Lincolnshire County Council, in September 2017 Monks' Dyke Tennyson College converted to academy status and was renamed Louth Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust (formerly Tollbar Multi Academy Trust). At the same time Cordeaux Academy (located on North Holme Road in Louth) merged with the new Louth Academy. The school is now based over both sites.
As of 2022, Louth Academy has received a 'Good' rating from Ofsted after previously being 'Inadequate'.
Current principal is Mr Joe Hermiston.
Notable former pupils Monks’ Dyke Corinne Drewery Donald Pleasence
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