Netherwood Academy

Netherwood Academy (formerly Netherwood Advanced Learning Centre) is a secondary school located next to Netherwood Country Park, between Wombwell and Darfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

Netherwood Academy
Address
Dove Valley Way Wombwell , South Yorkshire , S73 8FE England
Coordinates	53.53065°N 1.39642°W / 53.53065; -1.39642
Information
Type	Academy
Established	2017
Local authority	Barnsley
Trust	Astrea Academy Trust
Department for Education URN	143907 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Jonny Mitchell[1]
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	1186
Capacity	1600
Website	astreanetherwood.org

The school was formed in 2012 from a merger of Wombwell High School and Darfield Foulstone School of Creative Arts.^[2] The new school is located on a new campus, which also has facilities for leisure and cultural activities and adult learning to be used by the local community. The school has a £35 million campus, built as part of Barnsley’s Building Schools for the Future programme.

On 1 May 2017, the school converted to academy status and is sponsored by the Astrea Academy Trust.

Notable teachers

Teacher Mark Ibbertson and his teenage son Logan were featured in national newspapers, when they took their leisure inflatable dinghy out to rescue stranded residents of Bentley, Doncaster, during the November 2019 floods. They worked through the day rescuing 20 vulnerable people from their flooded homes.^[3][4]