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3 unusual facts about comprehensive school


Comprehensive

Comprehensive school, a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude

Comprehensive school

The percentage of students attending a Gesamtschule varies by Bundesland.

Tewodros II Secondary School

Tewodros II Secondary School is a comprehensive four-year public high school enrolling more than 4000 students in grades 9 through 12.


Angela Rumbold

She was Chair of the Governing Body of both Danes Hill School in Oxshott and Surbiton High School in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, as well as Vice Chair of the Governing Body of Tolworth Girls’ School, a large comprehensive school also in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

Bingley Grammar School

Bingley Grammar School (BGS) is a comprehensive community school for both boys and girls from the ages of 11–18 and is located on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.

Castlebrook High School

The school has been known for its great musical and theatrical ability and has staged many productions, musicals and musical, from Hobson's Choice, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and most recently in 2006 one of the first, if not the first, comprehensive school to perform the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Chatsmore Catholic High School

Chatsmore Catholic High School is an 11–16, mixed comprehensive school located in Goring By Sea, Worthing, West Sussex.

Dan Rogerson

Born in Cornwall to an English father and Welsh mother, Rogerson went to Bodmin College (comprehensive school), then studied Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.

Hyndland Secondary School

Hyndland Secondary School is a non-denominational state comprehensive school in the Hyndland area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Peter Housden

After graduating in 1973, Peter Housden began his career as a comprehensive school teacher in Shropshire and worked as an education officer in three county LEAs before being appointed as Director of Education in Nottinghamshire in 1991.

Sowerby Bridge High School

Sowerby Bridge High School is a mixed comprehensive secondary school in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

The Phoenix Collegiate

It was only a grammar school at this site for five years, becoming a comprehensive school in September 1969 when West Bromwich borough council (which merged with Warley five years later to form Sandwell) abolished grammar and secondary modern schools in the area.


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Alde Valley School

Alde Valley School is a comprehensive school in Leiston in the English county of Suffolk.

Anjana Ahuja

Ahuja, who was educated at a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, followed by a postgraduate course in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.

Arron Davies

Davies was brought up in Llantwit Major, where he attended Llantwit Major Comprehensive School.

Cantell Secondary School

Cantell School is a secondary comprehensive school in the Bassett Green area of Southampton, England.

Catherine McKinnell

McKinnell was born in Denton and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, where the attended the Sacred Heart Comprehensive School in Fenham.

Charles Thorp Comprehensive School

Ryton Comprehensive School was a popular oversubscribed school but was nevertheless threatened with closure as part of a review of secondary education in Gateshead in 2009.

Chiltern Edge School

Chiltern Edge School (also known as Chiltern Edge Secondary School) is a mixed, comprehensive school in Sonning Common, Oxfordshire (near Reading in Berkshire).

City of Leeds School

City of Leeds School is a mixed comprehensive school in Woodhouse, West Yorkshire, England.

Claydon High School

Claydon High School is a comprehensive school in Ipswich.

Edgbarrow

Edgbarrow School, a secondary comprehensive school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England

FMCS

Framwellgate School Durham, formerly known as the Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School

Get Lost!

In creating his two protagonists – Neville Keaton and Judy Threadgold (named after Sunderland goalkeeper Harry Threadgold) – Plater hit upon the idea of making the schoolteachers, saying, "I tried to think of the least likely place to find two detectives and I came up with a staffroom of a comprehensive school in Leeds".

Gosh It's... Bad Manners

The band had originally formed in 1976 while the members were together at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School, North London.

Hauptschule

However, some school districts such as the Renton School District maintain separate schools for students who do not succeed in the comprehensive school, usually students who get the lowest test score results.

They were merged with Realschulen and Gesamtschulen to form a new type of comprehensive school called Stadtteilschule in Hamburg and Sekundarschule in Berlin (see: Education in Berlin, Education in Hamburg).

Holmes Chapel

Harry Styles, member of One Direction, was a resident of the village and attended Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School.

Jason Scotland

Born in Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago, after playing for Malick Senior Comprehensive School, Scotland went on to play with San Juan Jabloteh – for whom he scored nine goals in as many league games – and Defence Force, where he scored 30 goals in 31 league appearances.

Joan Millman

Prior to her election to the Assembly, from 1985 to 1996, Millman served as an educational consultant in several capacities, including as a consultant to former NY City Council President Carol Bellamy and Senator Martin Connor, as well as facilitator for Comprehensive School Development and Planning.

Justin Tomlinson

Tomlinson was educated at the Harry Cheshire High School (since renamed Baxter College), a state comprehensive school in Kidderminster, Worcestershire in the West Midlands England, followed by Oxford Brookes University in the city of Oxford in Oxfordshire, where he became Chairman of its Conservative Student Branch from 1995-99.

King George School

South Shields Community School, a secondary school in South Shields, United Kingdom, formed by the merger of Brinkburn Comprehensive School and King George V Comprehensive School

Kingsbury School

Kingsbury School, Warwickshire, a comprehensive school in Kingsbury, Warwickshire

Kooperative Gesamtschule Elmshorn

Kooperative Gesamtschule Elmshorn (KGSE) is a German Cooperative Comprehensive School in Elmshorn.

Laura Weightman

Weightman was educated at "The Duchess Community High School", a state comprehensive school in the market town of Alnwick in Northumberland, in North East England.

Little Ilford

There is a large comprehensive school in the area called Little Ilford School.

Lizzie Armitstead

Armitstead was born in the market town of Otley in West Yorkshire, where she attended Prince Henry's Grammar School, a state comprehensive school.

Maltby Academy

It became Maltby Comprehensive School, being officially opened on 7 October 1967 by Alan Bullock, the Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Marcus Lloyd

Having attended a local comprehensive school, he went on to study Physics at Worcester College, Oxford and drama writing with playwright Bernard Kops while supporting himself working in the cloakroom of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Maurice-Tièche Comprehensive School

L’Ensemble Scolaire Maurice-Tièche or Maurice Tièche Comprehensive School is a K-13 co-educational, Christian private school owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region Collonges-sous-Salève of France.

Michael Duane

The case became well known largely due to the publication of Risinghill: Death of a Comprehensive School by Leila Berg in 1968.

North Chadderton School

North Chadderton School is a mixed gender comprehensive school and sixth form for 11–18 year olds, located in Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England.

Old Colwyn

It also harbours the 3rd Colwyn Bay (Old Colwyn) Scout Group headquarters and is home to the area's comprehensive school, Ysgol Bryn Elian

Peter D. Robinson

He grew up in Barton Waterside, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, and was educated locally at Castledyke Primary School and Baysgarth Comprehensive School.

Pingle

The Pingle School, state comprehensive school in South Derbyshire, England

Ramsey R.U.F.C.

Ramsey RUFC was formed in the late 1970s by a group of old boys from the local comprehensive school, Ramsey Grammar School.

Razia Iqbal

Iqbal was educated at Garrett Green Comprehensive School in the town of Tooting in South London, followed by the University of East Anglia, from which she graduated with a BA in American Studies.

Ryhope

Pop-music TV producers Malcolm Gerrie and Chris Cowey, the former was a teacher and the latter a pupil at Ryhope Comprehensive School - formerly Ryhope Grammar School.

Sackville School

Sackville School, East Grinstead, a comprehensive school in East Grinstead, Mid Sussex, England

Sherburn High School

Sherburn High School is an 11–18 mixed comprehensive school in Sherburn-in-Elmet in Selby, North Yorkshire, England, it has around 1000 pupils.

St Peter's High School, Gloucester

In 2007, the school's Under-18 Rugby Union team were winners of the Daily Mail Cup, becoming the second comprehensive school victors of the prize, after Campion.

TBCC

Thomas Bennett Community College, a comprehensive school in Crawley, West Sussex, England

Terwyn Davies

Terwyn was brought up in the Aeron Valley, Ceredigion, and was educated at Felinfach Primary School and then at Aberaeron Comprehensive School.

The Pingle School

The Pingle School is a state comprehensive school located at Coronation Street in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire, England.

United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge

The 2010 finalists were: Abbeyfield School, Bradford Grammar School, The Community Science College @ Thornhill, Dinnington Comprehensive School, Girls Aloft (Victoria College), Horsforth Secondary School, John Leggott College, Lostock Hall, Royal Liberty School, Thornton Grammar School, Wootton Bassett School and Worksop College.