Bluecoat Meres Academy

Bluecoat Meres Academy is a mixed Church of England secondary school in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

Bluecoat Meres Academy
Address
The Avenue Dysart Road Grantham , Lincolnshire , NG31 7PX England
Coordinates	52.90773°N 0.66229°W / 52.90773; -0.66229
Information
Type	Academy
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Department for Education URN	136476 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Susan Dench
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	489 as of January 2015
Website	Bluecoat Meres Academy

Built and established in the 1960s as St Hugh's Church of England Secondary School, it later became St Hugh's CofE Mathematics and Computing College as a foundation school administered by Lincolnshire County Council. It closed as such on 31 January 2011,[1] converting to an academy on 1 February 2011 renamed The West Grantham Academy St Hugh's. In 2019 the school was renamed Bluecoat Meres Academy, is now part of The West Grantham Academy Trust, and is supported by the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln. However the school continues to coordinate with Lincolnshire County Council for admissions.

Bluecoat Meres curriculum includes teaching towards GCSEs and BTECs.

A January to February 2018 Ofsted inspection of the school, then as The West Grantham Academy St Hugh's, rated it as Grade 4 'Inadequate' for overall effectiveness, one of 46 schools in Lincolnshire so rated.[2][3] An ongoing monitoring inspection in 2018 noted improvements in quality of leadership and management.[4] Following the reports, in early 2019 the "struggling" school, with its associated Bluecoat Meres Primary School, was taken under the auspices of the Archway Learning Trust, based at Nottingham. However, by November 2019 it was announced that the schools would be reverting to the West Grantham Academies Trust.[5]