Kings Manor Community College was a secondary school located in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. A specialist status state school, Kings Manor closed and reopened as an Academy named Shoreham Academy, with funding from the central government, in September 2009. The school was known for its poor academic reputation and its pupils of diverse socio-economic make-up.
The school was formed by the merger of King's Manor girls school with Middle Road Secondary Modern boys school.
The school took in students from years seven through eleven and had an adjoined sixth form college, the student population of which was derived primarily from the main school. The wide catchment area of the school resulted in pupils being taken from diverse social-economic backgrounds.
For ease of administration, each year group was divided into ten bands, assigned the letter K or M and a number from 1-5 (e.g. 9K5 or 10M3). However, beyond this, there was little resemblance to a traditional house system.
With regards to uniforms, year seven, eight and nine pupils wore dark blue shirts while those in years ten and eleven wore pale blue.
Local newspaper The Argus commented upon the irony of the school's first pupil to go onto the University of Oxford in the same year that Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls threatened the school with closure. The Education Secretary noted King's Manor as one of 11 schools in the Sussex area which qualified as "failing schools" because less than 30% of students manage to achieve A-C grades at GCSE. In 2007, 23% of pupils attained five or more GCSEs at Grade C or above including English and Maths, which was roughly half the national average of 46.7%; only 11% of pupils got an A*-C pass in GCSE Science.
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