Firth Park Academy

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Firth Park Academy
Address
Fircroft Avenue Sheffield , South Yorkshire , S5 0SD England
Coordinates	53°25′33″N 1°26′44″W / 53.42579°N 1.44548°W / 53.42579; -1.44548
Information
Type	Academy
Department for Education URN	139334 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	1,019
Colour(s)	Blue (light and dark), white
Publication	In Touch
Website	http://www.firthparkacademy.org/

Firth Park Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the Shiregreen area of Sheffield, England.

It is partnered with Longley Park Sixth Form, HBH Academy Trust, Beck Primary School, Hucklow Primary School and others.

In 1920 Firth Park Secondary School opened at the Brushes Building at the junction of Barnsley Road & Horninglow Road. It became Firth Park Grammar School in 1937. The uniform of the Grammar School was a red/maroon blazer with a matching red/maroon & green diagonal striped tie. As the uniform also included in the earlier years a red/maroon cap the pupils gained nickname “Red Caps”. Old pupils of the school are known as “Old Firparnians”. In 1969/70, following the Labour Government’s national shake up of secondary education the Grammar School, merged with Hatfield House Secondary School, and became the comprehensive Firth Park School. Firth Park School operated from the original buildings of the former schools (Brushes & North buildings). In 2003, following a period of closure & several arson incidents, the historic Brushes building was demolished. In 2004, the Longley Park Sixth Form College was opened on the site of Firth Park Grammar School. Firth Park School, now operating on the modernised site of the Hatfield House Secondary School on Fircroft Avenue two miles from the original Grammar School site, gained specialist status as an Arts College and was renamed Firth Park Community Arts College. The school converted to academy status on 1 August 2013 and was renamed Firth Park Academy. The school is now sponsored by Lift Schools.

Currently, the school achieves average GCSEs grades; a large number of students entering the school have average attainment level of around 85%. The number of students achieving five or more A*-C GCSEs has been increasing for the past several years. The sixth form college for Firth Park Academy is Longley Park Sixth Form.

From 2016 to 2021, Firth Park Academy appeared in the CBBC show, Our School. This showed the journey of new Year 7's joining Firth Park Academy.

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (September 2017)

• Stuart Ford, goalkeeper
• Richard Hawley, musician with the Longpigs
• Mark Rhodes, footballer with Rotherham United

• Robert Battersby CBE, Conservative MEP^[1] from 1979–89 for Humberside
• Gerald Brooke, arrested for smuggling anti-Soviet leaflets in USSR in 1965^{[citation needed]}
• Howard Johnson, footballer
• Gordon Linacre CBE AFC DFM, Chairman from 1983–90 of Yorkshire Post Newspapers
• Lincoln Ralphs, Chief Education Officer from 1950–74 of Norfolk
• Roy Shaw, Secretary General from 1975–83 of the Arts Council of Great Britain
• Paul Truswell, Labour MP from 1997–2010 for Pudsey

• John Bridge, the first person to be awarded a bar to the George Medal was a teacher at the school before and after the Second World War
• Gordon Hobson, footballer^[2]

• School website
• Website of former Firth Park Grammar School & Comprehensive School pupils