page_title: Ark Acton Academy
section_title: Comprehensive
hierarchical_section_title: Ark Acton Academy / History / Comprehensive
caption_attribution_description: English: A front entry gate of Acton High School, Middlesex's new building as of 2008.
context_page_description: Ark Acton Academy, formerly known as Acton High School, is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England.
context_section_description: The school became a comprehensive in 1967, when Ealing borough adopted the three tier system, and was known as Acton County Comprehensive and later, after 1972, became Reynolds High School, named after local politician Gerry Reynolds. The 18-year-old "graduation" year of 1976 produced 4 university students out of an intake of 180 in 1969. School colours were brown and cream, with a badge showing a ring of oak leaves around a portcullis with the school name superimposed. The school roll in 1979 amounted to 1040 pupils and until its final years, consisted of eight forms per year.
  In the 1970s, the neighbouring Ealing Mead County school off Popes Lane, opened in 1962, was found to have serious structural problems in its building. After only eight years of use, Ealing Mead had to be closed and demolished. As a result, the pupils of the school were distributed around the other local schools and Reynolds High School absorbed a significant proportion of them.
  Reynolds High School closed in July 1984 primarily due to falling school roll but re-opened in September the same year as Acton High School following a merger with the Faraday High School, formerly based at Bromyard Avenue. The old brick buildings, dating from 1939, were demolished in 2005, and a new school building built on the same site.
caption: The front of the main building
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