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Treviglas Academy

school in Newquay, Cornwall, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ7838979
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Treviglas Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Newquay, Cornwall, England. The age range of the students is 11 to 18.

The original buildings were opened in the early 1960s but further development has taken place on a regular basis ever since, such as the library, information technology rooms and science facilities as well as the post-16 learning centre. Treviglas opened a new sports facility, The Dome, in October 2001 and, in February 2004, a new dedicated sixth form and community learning block was opened. The SportsHub, funded by Sport England, opened in 2012. From the playing fields, there are views to the sea dropping down toward Porth, with the village of St Columb Minor neighboring the college.

As of January 2019, Treviglas Community College became part of The Roseland Multi Academy Trust and became Treviglas Academy.

Treviglas was the first school in the county to receive Business and Enterprise status and was awarded an overall Outstanding by Ofsted for the second consecutive time in their second most recent inspection (2012). As of July 2017 the school has now been judged Inadequate by OfSTED in their most recent inspection.

The college focuses on core academic subjects and vocational training for students, including Post-16 academies which teach students lifelong learning and workplace skills at A-Level.

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“Treviglas Academy” enters the record as school in Newquay, Cornwall, England. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Treviglas, Academy and school can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2004, 2012, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Treviglas, Academy and school.
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“Treviglas Academy” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Treviglas, Academy and school provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7838979. Authority coordinates are 50.420, -5.049. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2004, 2012 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Treviglas Academy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.