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Smithdon High School (formerly known as Hunstanton Secondary Modern School and Hunstanton School) is an non-selective (ages 11-18) academy, with 627 students in Hunstanton, Norfolk. Ofsted rated the school as good in 2014. It changed it status, joining the West Norfolk Academies Trust in 2016.
The buildings were designed by the architects Peter and Alison Smithson. They were completed in 1954, and the modernist school was immediately acclaimed by the architectural critics who coined the term New brutalism. It has stark and uncompromising design with large expanses of glass (inspired by the work of Mies van der Rohe) and exposed structural elements and services. The buildings have remained largely unchanged though some of the featured clear glass panels were replaced by black panels to overcome a solar overheating problem. They were Grade II* listed in 1993.