Gillbrook Academy
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| name = Gillbrook Academy
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| motto = To make our best better
| established = 1955
| closed = 2014 (became Hillsview Academy)
| type = Academy
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| address = Normanby Road
| city = Teesville
Middlesbrough
| county = North Yorkshire
| country = England
| postcode = TS6 9AG
| ofsted = yes
| dfeno = 807/4002
| urn = 137709
| staff =
| enrolment = 460
| gender = Mixed
| lower_age = 11
| upper_age = 19
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| colours = Black, sky blue and navy
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| publication = Gillbrook Gusto Newsletter
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| website = {{url|www.gillbrookacademy.org}}
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Gillbrook Academy (formerly Gillbrook College) was a mixed academy and sixth form in Teesville, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire. It merged with neighbouring Eston Park Academy in September 2014{{cite news | url=http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/eston-park-gillbrook-academies-merge-3818005 | title=Two Eston academies to merge from September | website=GazetteLive | date=16 May 2013 | last=Maddison | first=Lee}} and now forms part of a new single Hillsview Academy.{{cite web | url=http://www.estonpark.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/hillsviewLetter12-09-13.pdf | title=Hillsview Academy Letter | date=12 September 2013 | website=Eston Park website | format=PDF | access-date=9 October 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021234202/http://www.estonpark.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/hillsviewLetter12-09-13.pdf | archive-date=21 October 2013 | url-status=dead }}
Location
The academy was to the south of Eston Sports Academy on Normanby Road just off the trunk road (A1085) intersection, in the Anglican parish of Christ Church, with both Eston Park Academy, whose playing fields were adjoined, and Redcar & Cleveland Council Town Hall nearby.
Gillbrook
Its students came from Normanby and Teesville, neighbouring towns and villages, and nearby Eston with the latter taking a sizeable part in the school enrolment, which before closure was around 1250, including 400 in the sixth form.
History
=Grammar school=
It opened in September 1955 as Eston Grammar School in Teesville with 650 boys and girls. The school motto was Sapera Aude (dare to know).
=Comprehensive=
It became known as Gillbrook School in 1973, then Gillbrook Technology College, then Gilbrook College. Between 1994 and 2006, it was a technology college, and in 2009, it became an arts college.
Notable former pupils
=Gillbrook School=
- Martin Daniels and his brother Gary, sons of Paul Daniels
=Eston Grammar School=
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- Professor Harry Elderfield FRS, professor of ocean geochemistry and palaeochemistry since 1999 at the University of Cambridge
- John Elderfield, art historian, and curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1975 to 2008
- Professor Keith Gull CBE, FRS, professor of molecular microbiology since 2004 at University of Oxford, and principal since 2009 of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
- Professor Robert Sugden FBA, professor of economics since 1985 at the University of East Anglia
References
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External links
- [http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/thousands-help-schools-redcar-cleveland-3724868 Evening Gazette | Thousands to help schools in Redcar and Cleveland]
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/6281988.stm BBC News | Work starts on sixth form centres]
- [http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/meeting-held-controversial-school-plans-3709861 Evening Gazette | Meeting held on controversial school plans]
{{Schools in North Yorkshire}}
Category:Defunct schools in Redcar and Cleveland
Category:1955 establishments in England
Category:2014 disestablishments in England