The Forest High School, Cinderford
Academy in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England
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SGS Forest High School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Cinderford in the English county of Gloucestershire.[1]
Redhill Academy Trust (2014–15)
E-ACT (until 2014)
| SGS Forest High School | |
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| Location | |
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Causeway Road , , GL14 2AZ | |
| Coordinates | 51.829°N 2.49331°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Trust | SGS Academy Trust (2015–) Redhill Academy Trust (2014–15) E-ACT (until 2014) |
| Department for Education URN | 138496 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Nicola Mooney |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Houses | Beechenhurst
Clearwell Symonds Yat |
| Website | http://www.foresthigh.org.uk/ |
The school was established as Double View Secondary Modern School on Woodville Road in Cinderford, but expanded to the current site on Causeway Road in the early-mid-1970s. The school continued to operate over both sites until 1979 when the Woodville Road site closed. Double View was renamed Heywood School in the mid-1980s, and later Heywood Community School in the early 1990s.
Heywood Community School became a foundation school in the 2000s, and was administered by Gloucestershire County Council until September 2012 when the school converted to academy status. The school was renamed Forest E-ACT Academy, and was sponsored by E-ACT. However in 2014 the E-Act announced that they would be withdrawing as sponsor, and that the school would join the Redhill Academy Trust and be renamed Forest Academy.[2] However, in 2015 the new academy sponsor was named as the SGS Schools Trust, and the school was renamed SGS Forest High School.[3][4]
SGS Forest High School was placed into special measures by Ofsted in 2022.[5] In 2024, it was re-inspected and judged to require improvement.[6]
As of September 2024, Nicola Mooney is the headteacher, following the appointment of Alan Dane as chief executive officer of SGS Academy Trust.