Springwood High School (Queensway)
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Springwood High School is a secondary school in Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, United Kingdom.
It has five houses: Felbrigg, Blickling, Oxbrough, Holkham and Sandringham.

Springwood was formed in 1979 by the merger of the Alderman Caltleugh Secondary School and the King's Lynn Girls High School to form Springwood High School (part of the Comprehensive Education plan started in 1965 which saw the end of Secondary Moderns and Grammar/High Schools in most parts of the country). The name Springwood being chosen for the newly formed school due to the main site being adjacent to the Spring Wood.

There were three sites for the school, the old Alderman Catleugh at the end of Queensway with its two wings and in excess of 20 mobile classrooms and the new block of the girls High School also on Queensway and a smaller original site of the girls High School located in King Street in the town centre, the two main sites were used for day to day schooling whilst the town centre site was used for the Sixth Form , the King Street site eventually being sold off for a housing complex and the main two sites being upgraded and extended.

In April 2011, Springwood High School was given an academy status receiving funds from the government instead of local authorities such as Norfolk County Council. The school is now called Springwood High School Academy Trust.
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