Welcome to the website of the proposed Sidney Stringer Academy. This site aims to keep you up to date with the plans and to give you the chance to send us your ideas and views on the Academy’s development.

It is proposed that a new state-of-the art Academy should be built to replace the existing Sidney Stringer School in Hillfields. The new Academy would be located in the Swanswell Learning Quarter, close to City College and at the heart of the Swanswell regeneration project.

The Sponsors recognise that Sidney Stringer is a successful school but that its buildings are now in a poor condition and need to be replaced.

By becoming an Academy, the school will benefit from a totally new building with first class facilities and also from the support and expertise of its Sponsors, enabling the current achievements of Sidney Stringer and its students to be taken to an even higher level.

If the Academy goes ahead it would

mean that:

Sidney Stringer School would change its status to an Academy from September 2010 and operate for the first school year, with improved facilities in the existing Sidney Stringer School building, before moving into the new Academy building on its completion a year later.

The new Academy would admit up to 1,350 students, including a new sixth form.

It would welcome students from all backgrounds, faiths and abilities

It would be sponsored by City College Coventry, Coventry City Council, Coventry University and Jaguar Cars

It would benefit the local community as part of the wider regeneration of the area by providing a centre for learning and a place for community activities.