title: Winterton Community Academy
text: # Winterton Community Academy
  
  Winterton Community Academy (formerly Winterton Comprehensive School) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Winterton, North Lincolnshire, England.
  
  ## Admissions
  
  Winterton Community Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.
  
  ## History
  
  ### Secondary modern
  
  The school began as Winterton Secondary Modern School. Grammar school for Winterton was Scunthorpe Grammar School (now St Lawrence Academy, Scunthorpe, and previously High Ridge School).
  
  ### Comprehensive
  
  It became comprehensive with the rest of Scunthorpe in 1968. Previously a community school administered by North Lincolnshire Council, Winterton Comprehensive School converted to academy status on 1 October 2012 and was renamed Winterton Community Academy.
  
  ## Notable former pupils
  
  ### Winterton Secondary Modern School
  
  * Liz Redfern, Baroness Redfern, Conservative Leader from 2006–07 and 2011-17 of North Lincolnshire Council
  