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'''Berwick Academy''' (formerly '''Berwick Community High School''') is a [[coeducational]] [[upper school]] and [[sixth form]] located in [[Berwick-upon-Tweed]] in the [[English county]] of [[Northumberland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berwickacademy.co.uk/|title=Berwick Academy|work=berwickacademy.co.uk}}</ref> on the border with Scotland.
Previously a [[Community school (England and Wales)|community school]] administered by [[Northumberland County Council]], Berwick Community High School converted to [[Academy (English school)|academy status]] in November 2011 and was renamed Berwick Academy. However the school continues to coordinate with Northumberland County Council for admissions.
Berwick Academy offers [[General Certificate of Secondary Education|GCSEs]] and [[Business and Technology Education Council|BTECs]] as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of [[A-level]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berwick-academy.co.uk/index.php/en/sixthform|title=Sixth Form|work=berwick-academy.co.uk|access-date=15 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416003112/http://www.berwick-academy.co.uk/index.php/en/sixthform|archive-date=16 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
As of 2020, the school's most recent [[Ofsted]] inspection was in 2018, with a judgement of 'inadequate'.<ref name="Ofsted_2018">{{cite web |last1=Griffiths |first1=Tudor |title=Berwick Academy |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2763847 |publisher=Ofsted |accessdate=26 September 2020 |date=2018}}</ref>
== Alumni ==
The alumni of Berwick Academy, previously known as Berwick-upon-Tweed Community High School before 2011 include:
* [[Jeremy Purvis]], [[Member of the Scottish Parliament|MSP]] for [[Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (UK Parliament constituency)|Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale]] between 2003 and 2011; made a [[life peer]] in 2013 and currently sits in the [[House of Lords]] as a Liberal Democrat.
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.berwick-academy.co.uk/ Berwick Academy official website]
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