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'''Ark Walworth Academy''' (formerly '''Walworth School''', '''Walworth Central School''', '''Mina Road School''' and '''Mina Road Higher Grade School''') is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school and sixth form located in the Walworth area of London, England.

==History== The school has its origins in Mina Road School which opened during the late Victorian era. Pupils included Albert Edward McKenzie who won the Victoria Cross.

Walworth School was established in 1946 as an 'experimental' or 'interim' comprehensive school.<ref>Pete Medway, http://petemedway.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/walworth-school-mina-road-school.html</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Self-published source|date=April 2025}}

==Academy== The school converted to an Ark academy for the 2007-08 academic year.

This school is split up into three sections named after notable local figures: Chaplin, Babbage and Seacole. The Chaplin and Babbage blocks are two separate halves of Key Stage 3. Key Stage 4 is known as Seacole.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.arkschools.org/pages/ark-schools/ark-academies/open-academies.php | title=ARK Schools - Open Academies | publisher=ARK Schools | date=2010 | accessdate=2010-08-22}}</ref>

The Ofsted report of July 2010 rated it as "Good, with outstanding capacity to improve".<ref>{{ofsted|135315}}</ref>

==See also== * Southwark Schools' Learning Partnership

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{{Ark schools}} {{Schools and colleges in Southwark}}

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Category:Academies in the London Borough of Southwark Category:Secondary schools in the London Borough of Southwark Category:Ark schools