Wath Academy is a mixed secondary school on Sandygate in Wath-upon-Dearne in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

Wath Secondary School rapidly outgrew its original accommodation, which led to lessons taking place in a number of borrowed locations scattered throughout Wath-upon-Dearne.

[5] The Park Road site initially continued to be used for the secondary modern stream, but later became a wing for first form (later known as Year 7) students.

The Inspectors highlighted 'damp seeping through the walls and ceilings', 'decaying door and window fittings', 'areas of crumbling asphalt and potholes' and 'falling plaster', before going on to conclude: Floors are bowing and lifting in the IT rooms.

In the sixth form common room, which is insufficient for the number of students, roof slates are missing, causing ceilings to collapse during wet weather.

As a result of the rebuild, the school became single-site for the first time since the 1960s (though a road divides the main site from some of the playing fields).

The funding therefore went to a similar building at Wickersley School and Sports College, which was not as overcapacity as Wath, but does draw all its students from the borough of Rotherham.

Later in 2016, the local council proposed an extension of five classrooms, in return for the school taking on 20 additional students a year.

Following the controversial Ofsted inspection in March 2017,[12][1] the school was forced to academise (and leave its current foundation trust) against its will.

The regional schools commissioner proposed Maltby Learning Trust as the academy sponsor in July 2017.

After being delayed 12 times, the school finally academised – a full year late – on 1 April 2019 and became known as Wath Academy.

Numbers then grew gradually, though were boosted to around 1,500 in the 1960s due to the closing of Wath (Park Road) Secondary Modern School.

This includes the highly controversial inspection of 2017, where the school's results – officially classed as 'average' by the Department for Education –[21] were inexplicably called 'dire' by Ofsted.