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Charles Read Academy
Address
Bourne Road Corby Glen, Lincolnshire, NG33 4NT England
Information
Type	Academy
Local authority	Lincolnshire
Trust	David Ross Education Trust
Department for Education URN	136479 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Sue Jones
Gender	Co-educational
Age	11 to 16
Website	www.charlesreadacademy.co.uk

Charles Read Academy is a co-educational secondary school located in Corby Glen, Lincolnshire, England. It serves the villages between Stamford, Bourne and Grantham.

The current school was built as a secondary modern in 1963, and in 1999 it was renamed the Charles Read High School to perpetuate the tradition of the former grammar school founded in 1669 by the bequest of Charles Read (1604–1669), who became a wealthy shipper in Hull. Read also founded Read School at Drax in Yorkshire and a grammar school at Tuxford in Notts. Reads Grammar School in Corby Glen closed in 1909.

The original grammar school building is now the Willoughby Memorial Library and Art Gallery. The building was restored in 1965 by the Willoughby Memorial Trust which was founded by James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster in memory of his son Timothy, Lord Willoughby de Eresby, who died in 1963.

Charles Read High School converted to an academy in January 2011. In January 2013 the West Grantham Academies Trust announced the Academy would close by September 2014 but subsequently the David Ross Education Trust took responsibility for maintaining the school.

Notable former pupils

• Beverley Allitt – Serial killer nurse.

References

1. "Ofsted reports".
2. "Judge opens school". The Guardian Journal Nottingham. 9 November 1963. The Charles Read Secondary Modern School, Corby Glen, near Grantham, which has accommodated 150 pupils since April, was officially opened last night by Mr. Justice Faulks.
3. "The Charles Read High School". Archived from the original on 3 March 2010. Retrieved 3 March 2010. dead link
4. Needle, Justin. "Corby Glen, Lincolnshire". homepages.which.net. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
5. "Stamford Latest News - from the Stamford Mercury". Stamford Mercury. 30 January 2013.
6. "Charles Read Academy saved from closure by trust". Stamford Mercury. 11 June 2013. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
7. Askill, J.; Sharpe, M. (2014). Angel of Death: Killer Nurse Beverly Allitt. Michael OMara. ISBN 9781782432456. Retrieved 12 December 2014.

External links

• Charles Read Academy

52°48′38″N 0°30′59″W / 52.81054°N 0.51636°W / 52.81054; -0.51636 (Charles Read Academy, Corby Glen)

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