Alec Reed Academy

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| motto = Proud to Learn

| established = {{start date and age|1955}}
as Walford Secondary School

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| head = P Cosby

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| address = Bengarth Road

| city = Northolt

| county = Greater London

| country = England

| postcode = UB5 5LQ

| local_authority = Ealing

| dfeno = 307/6905

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| urn = 134369

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| enrolment = 1686

| gender = Mixed

| lower_age = 3

| upper_age = 19

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Alec Reed Academy is a mixed all-through school and sixth form located in the Northolt area of the London Borough of Ealing, England. The school operates nursery, primary, secondary and sixth form departments for pupils aged 3 to 19.

Its predecessor, Walford Secondary School, was founded in 1955 as a secondary modern school for 11- to 16-year-olds.{{cite book|author1=Diane K Bolton|author2=H P F King|author3=Gillian Wyld|author4=D C Yaxley|chapter=Northolt: Education|title=A History of the County of Middlesex|volume=4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner|editor1=T F T Baker|editor2=J S Cockburn|editor3=R B Pugh |location=London |date=1971|pages=121–122|via= British History Online|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol4/pp121-122 |accessdate=4 September 2022}} It later became Walford High School under the comprehensive system. The school changed its name to Compton High School and Sports College in 2001,{{cite web |url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2142778 |title=The schools that did not need saving |work=Times Educational Supplement |date=11 May 2008 |accessdate=2013-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419051439/http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2142778 |archive-date=19 April 2013 |url-status=dead }} after the Middlesex and England cricketer, Denis Compton.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/may/14/schools.cricket |work=The Guardian|date=14 May 2002|title=A little bit of... fun|author=Stephen Moss}} In 2003, Compton High School and Northolt Primary School were merged on the same site to form West London Academy, one of the first academies to be created in England.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4742335.stm |title='Serious concerns' at new academy |work=BBC News |date=2005-08-03 |accessdate=2013-07-24}} The school moved to new buildings on the same site in 2005.{{cite web |url=http://www.alecreedacademy.co.uk/28/welcome-to-alec-reed-academy |title=Welcome |publisher=Alec Reed Academy|accessdate=2013-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823125453/http://www.alecreedacademy.co.uk/28/welcome-to-alec-reed-academy |archive-date=23 August 2013 |url-status=dead }} In 2012, it was renamed Alec Reed Academy, after its sponsor, the entrepreneur Alec Reed.

The school shares its campus with John Chilton School, a special school for pupils with a physical and/or a medical disability.{{cite web|url=http://www.john-chilton.ealing.sch.uk/ |title=John Chilton School |accessdate=2013-07-24}} The two schools share many facilities and the entire campus is wheelchair accessible.

In June 2015, Ofsted gave the academy a "Good" rating. The rating was reaffirmed in June 2018, when Ofsted noted the school's strengths in ".....learning in the early years and primary phases" and its general sense of inclusivity.{{Cite web|url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/28/134369|title=Alec Reed Academy|publisher=Ofsted |date=2018-07-05|access-date=2018-12-03}} For maths and writing, the academy achieved a "Well Above Average" rating for its overall performance at end of key stage 2 in 2017.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}