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Woodbrook Vale School

academy in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ8032436 ↗
Source-derived summary

Woodbrook Vale School is a coeducational secondary school situated on Grasmere Road in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is a state school with academy status and has around 800 pupils on roll.

The main partner primary schools are Beacon Academy, Mountfields Lodge, Outwoods Edge and Holywell.

Its headteacher is Ms. Rachael Fraser with Mr. Paul Hynes and Mr Peter Hayes as Deputy Heads. Mr. Dave Green is the School Business Manager.

The School is currently rated 'good' by Ofsted as of February 2019.

From the evidence Ofsted gathered during this short inspection, “the school has demonstrated strong practice and marked improvement in specific areas.

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The public source identifies “Woodbrook Vale School” as academy in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Woodbrook, Vale and School.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Woodbrook, Vale and School providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8032436. Authority coordinates are 52.749, -1.218. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Woodbrook Vale School” 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.