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Appleton Academy

Appleton Academy is a mixed all-through school for pupils aged 3 to 16. It is located in Wyke in the City of Bradford, in the English county of West Yorkshire. The school is named after Sir Edward Victor Appleton, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947.

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53°44′33″N 1°46′16″W / 53.74256°N 1.77123°W / 53.74256; -1.77123
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TypeAcademy
Local authority
Bradford
TrustExceed Academies Trust
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Executive Headteacher
Helen Jones
GenderMixed
Age3 to 16
Websitehttp://www.appletonacademy.co.uk/

Appleton Academy is a mixed all-through school for pupils aged 3 to 16. It is located in Wyke in the City of Bradford, in the English county of West Yorkshire.1 The school is named after Sir Edward Victor Appleton, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947.

The school was formed in 2009 from the merger of Wyke Manor School (secondary school) and High Fernley Primary School. The school moved into new buildings in 2012.2 It is an academy that is sponsored by the Exceed Academies Trust.

Appleton Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

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  1. "Appleton Academy". appletonacademy.co.uk.
  2. "Appleton Academy". bradfordcollegeeducationtrust.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
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