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Wath Comprehensive School: A Language College is a mixed secondary school on Sandygate in Wath-upon-Dearne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.Following an Inadequate Ofsted inspection in March 2017, the school will be forced to academise. The regional schools commissioner has proposed Maltby Learning Trust as the academy sponsor from September 2017.AdmissionsThe school is a specialist Language College, though it is non-selective. It has approximately 1,900 pupils between the ages of 11 and 18 on roll, including around 400 in the sixth form.There is also a school council, which contributes to the decisions made by the head and speaks on behalf of all the students in all years.HistoryAlthough the school has links to a seventeenth century school that existed in Wath, the current institution was founded in 1923 as Wath Secondary School. It was located on Park Road, sitting on the site of what is now Wath Central Primary School. The school was controlled by West Riding County Council.Wath Secondary School rapidly outgrew its original building, which led to lessons taking place in a number of borrowed locations scattered throughout Wath. To rectify this, the school moved into new, purpose-built accommodation on Sandygate in 1930. The institution became known as Wath-upon-Dearne Grammar School in 1931. The school was expanded with many new buildings and extensions in the early 1950s.