Retford High School For Girls

The Elizabethan Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford, England. It is situated to the north of Retford town centre, to the east of the A638, on the side of the River Idle once known as West Retford. The academy has specialist status in Science and Mathematics. HistoryGrammar schoolsThe Retford High School for Girls was a girls' grammar school, also known as Retford County High School for Girls in the 1950s. The analogous boys' school was the King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford (now part of Retford Oaks Academy). In 1940, 180 girls from Great Yarmouth High School for Girls were evacuated to Retford, and joined the school. They stayed until September 1944. The school on Pelham Road had around 400 girls in the 1950s and 1960s. The former site is to become a Nottingham County Council property. It was off Queen Street, the road leading from the A620 Babworth Road to Retford railway station, in the area known as West Field close to the East Coast Main Line. ComprehensiveThe Elizabethan High School was first created in September 1979, following a reorganisation of the secondary schools in Retford. At this time the former Hallcroft Girls' secondary modern school on Hallcroft Road became the new school's Lower Site and the Retford Girls' High School became the school's Upper Site, next to the Chesterfield Canal.

The Elizabethan Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in the Nottinghamshire market town of Retford, England. It is situated to the north of Retford town centre, to the east of the A638, on the side of the River Idle once known as West Retford. The academy has specialist status in Science and Mathematics. HistoryGrammar schoolsThe Retford High School for Girls was a girls' grammar school, also known as Retford County High School for Girls in the 1950s. The analogous boys' school was the King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford (now part of Retford Oaks Academy). In 1940, 180 girls from Great Yarmouth High School for Girls were evacuated to Retford, and joined the school. They stayed until September 1944. The school on Pelham Road had around 400 girls in the 1950s and 1960s. The former site is to become a Nottingham County Council property. It was off Queen Street, the road leading from the A620 Babworth Road to Retford railway station, in the area known as West Field close to the East Coast Main Line. ComprehensiveThe Elizabethan High School was first created in September 1979, following a reorganisation of the secondary schools in Retford. At this time the former Hallcroft Girls' secondary modern school on Hallcroft Road became the new school's Lower Site and the Retford Girls' High School became the school's Upper Site, next to the Chesterfield Canal.