Ridgewood School
Ridgewood School (The Academy @ Ridgewood Trust) is an academy in Scawsby, Doncaster, in England. The school gained academy status in October 2011, and was a specialist Engineering College prior to September 2015. Catchment area. Ridgewood School accepts pupils from the surrounding areas of Sprotbrough, Sprotbrough village (or Upper Sprotbrough) with Copley Junior School and Richmond Hill Primary School, Cusworth with Saltersgate Infants and Junior School, Barnburgh and Marr with Barnburgh Primary, and Scawsby with Rosedale Primary all leading on to Ridgewood. Pupils from Upper Sprotbrough who previously attended Outwood (formerly Adwick Secondary School), are now in the catchment  area of Ridgewood. Curriculum. Lessons: Ridgewood School teaches lessons in Geography, Music, History, French, Spanish, Art, ICT, Science, Maths, RE, PE, Technology, Food Tech, English, and Drama. The school also caters for 6th formers with courses including engineering, computing and construction. It competes in sporting and non-sporting events including track and field running, cross country, football and netball. Location. Ridgewood School neighbours the New Stone Hill School, a specialist school which was formerly the Anchorage School, and before that, a teacher training college. It has an open playing field towards the back of the site alongside Ridgewood's open  P.E. fields, which are both surrounded by open fields used for agriculture. To one side of the playing field is an abandoned railway line which runs through Scawsby and Sprotbrough. Travel to the school is provided via the school buses, the 540, which collects students from Sprotbrough village, the 541, which collects students from Lower Sprotbrough, and the 542, which collects students from Barnburgh. A late bus is also provided in the afternoons, which leaves at 16:00. The school lies on Barnsley road (A635) what is the main Barnsley - Doncaster link road which passes though villages like Hickelton, Goldthorpe, Darfeild  etc. School performance. Ridgewood Academy performs at an average level in Doncaster's league tables for GCSE and other results, often around the middle of the league table. In the school's most recent Ofsted report (March 2019), both the lower school and sixth form were judged 'Requires Improvement'.