Samworth Enterprise Academy, is an Academy

Academy (England)

In the education system of England, an academy is a school that is directly funded by central government and independent of control by local government in England. An academy may receive additional support from personal or corporate sponsors, either financially or in kind...

 (publicly funded, semi-independent all through school) located in Leicester

Leicester

Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is a co-educational school for 3-16 year olds that specialises in Food, Business and Enterprise. The school was created on the site of the Mary Linwood Comprehensive School

Mary Linwood Comprehensive School

Mary Linwood Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in the English city of Leicester.The school was an all girls school till 1976 when it started to admit boys from the, closing, Linwood Boys school, the last year of all girls left in 1980...

 which closed in 1997. It opened in 2007 under the co-sponsorship of the Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

and businessman David Samworth, and incorporates a fully functioning church.

External links

• Westminster Academy review and photos by a+t magazine