Coleridge Community College
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Coleridge Community College is a state
secondary school
with 600 places for children aged 11–16, situated in Cambridge
, Cambridgeshire
, England
. The school is now a member of the Parkside Federation along with Parkside Community College
. Previously, it had been placed on special measures
, and was due to be closed. However, its most recent Ofsted
report rated it overall as "broadly average".
Despite being a foundation school
, Coleridge has almost identical admission arrangements to the community schools within Cambridgeshire. Any parent can apply for a place, with priority going to children who are in public care, then to those living in the designated catchment area, then to those with older siblings at the school and finally to those living nearest the school.
Public School (UK)
A public school, in common British usage, is a school that is neither administered nor financed by the state or from taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of endowments, tuition fees and charitable contributions, usually existing as a non profit-making charitable trust...
secondary school
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
with 600 places for children aged 11–16, situated in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
, Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The school is now a member of the Parkside Federation along with Parkside Community College
Parkside Community College
Parkside Community College is a state secondary school with 600 places for children aged 11–16, situated in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. It is part of the Parkside Federation, along with Coleridge Community College-Admissions:...
. Previously, it had been placed on special measures
Special measures
Special measures is a status applied by Ofsted and Estyn, the schools inspection agencies, to schools in England and Wales, respectively, when it considers that they fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity necessary to secure improvements...
, and was due to be closed. However, its most recent Ofsted
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
report rated it overall as "broadly average".
Despite being a foundation school
Foundation school
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....
, Coleridge has almost identical admission arrangements to the community schools within Cambridgeshire. Any parent can apply for a place, with priority going to children who are in public care, then to those living in the designated catchment area, then to those with older siblings at the school and finally to those living nearest the school.