Greig City Academy is a co-educational secondary school within the English academy programme, in the borough of Haringey. The successor to The School of St. David and St. Katharine, a Church of England comprehensive school which had been extensively rebuilt, with new science and music blocks in 1998, before it was closed to be replaced under the Labour government's flagship "City Academies" programme in September 2002. It has had further rebuilding since.
The Greig Trust and the Church of England sponsor the Academy, which is a registered charity under English law. David Greig, a successful local businessman, founded the Greig Trust in memory of his mother in 1949. The Trust was established to provide funds to assist with the education of Hornsey children in accordance with the Christian faith. The Greig Trust contributed significantly to the programme of refurbishment and new building both while it was St David and St Katharine and as The Greig Academy. The Church of England is also contributing a significant amount to the renewal of the facilities at Greig City Academy.
In 1990 the school, then known as St. David and St. Katherine, was reported by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools to be at serious risk. Between 1991 and 2000, under headteacher Terry Farrell, the school improved its GCSE results at A to C significantly, gaining an excellent report from Ofsted in 1998, which described it as "improving and continuing to improve" and praised both its leadership team and ethos. It declined in its first years of City Academy status, but currently, under Principal Paul Sutton, the school again has had some of the best-improving GCSE results in the country.
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