Manor School and Sports College is a comprehensive school

Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

 in Raunds

Raunds

Raunds is a small market town in rural Northamptonshire, England. It has a population of 8,275 , is a civil parish, and is part of the East Northamptonshire district.- Geography :Raunds is situated 21 miles north-east of Northampton...

, Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

, England

England

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. The school was awarded specialist sports college status in 2003 and has been noted as "good" by the independent education standards board, Ofsted

Ofsted

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Education

The school has around 800 students on roll as of 2009. The school teaches children between the ages of 11 and 16, both boys and girls. After this, the school offers students the opportunity to join TENC (The East Northamptonshire College), as a member of the sixth form.

Facilities

The school is split into 7 distinct "blocks" - the Science block which houses Science, Music and Health and Social Care; the Jubilee block which houses Technology, Art and Catering studies; the Main block which houses ICT, the school library, administration and the school gym; the English block which houses English and Maths; the PE block which houses the Sports Hall, changing rooms and teaching rooms, the Humanities block which houses Humanities, Business Studies and the school cafeteria, and the Heritage block which houses Modern Foreign Languages.
In addition to this, the school boasts a state of the art all weather pitch, several football pitches and a rugby field. There is also a dance studio, two internal gardens and a large school hall used for drama and dance.