Welcome to
Holyrood Academy

Welcome to Holyrood Academy

Holyrood Academy is an 11-18 over-subscribed Academy in Somerset with approximately 1400 students on roll, including around 170 in the Sixth Form. Since 1910, the school has existed in the centre of the historic market town of Chard in South Somerset and it is the only secondary school in the town. We are therefore fully comprehensive and committed to providing an excellent education in the service of our whole community.

Holyrood Academy is part of Blackdown Education Partnership. Being part of this successful family of schools allows us to share good practice and provides exceptional opportunities to learn from each other. All our senior leaders are system leaders and regularly contribute to the leadership programmes of Teaching Schools across the region including those led by our own Training School, WCTSA.

Holyrood benefits from a large and beautifully situated site of 43 acres and is within easy commuting distance of towns such as Taunton and Yeovil as well as the cities of Exeter and Bristol. Chard is on the edge of the Blackdown Hills and close to the beautiful Jurassic Coast.

If you would like to find out more about Holyrood Academy, please read our Headteacher’s Introduction.