Redruth School A Technology College is a secondary school

Secondary school

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 and sixth form college

Sixth form college

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 in Redruth

Redruth

Redruth is a town and civil parish traditionally in the Penwith Hundred in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a population of 12,352. Redruth lies approximately at the junction of the A393 and A3047 roads, on the route of the old London to Land's End trunk road , and is approximately west of...

, Cornwall

Cornwall

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, United Kingdom

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, for ages 11–18. The school is developing its position as a focal point for the community, and retains strong links within the town. Redruth School has emerged as a strong and more successful establishment after a period which involved some negative publicity and underperformance, staff and students have enjoyed recent successes with GCSE results in 2010 likely to place the school in the top 25% of similar schools nationally.

The various Redruth School teams (especially rugby

Rugby football

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 and football) have gained and retained several local and national trophies, and the school is becoming increasingly renowned for its sporting, technological, creative arts and academic successes. The extensive sports fields of the school are also used as a venue for the Westward League Cross Country

Cross country running

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 running competitions once a year.

Notable alumni

• The musician Aphex Twin
  Aphex Twin
  Richard David James , best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born electronic musician and composer described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music"...
  
   attended the school, and named a song on the re-release of his Surfing on Sine Waves
  Surfing on Sine Waves
  Surfing on Sine Waves is an electronic music album by Polygon Window, a pseudonym for recording artist Richard D. James, better known by his other alias of Aphex Twin. The album was released on 11 January 1993 on Warp Records, and is the second in its Artificial Intelligence series...
  
   album after it.

• Rory McGrath
  Rory McGrath
  Patrick Rory McGrath is an English comedian and writer. He is best known for roles in Who Dares Wins, Chelmsford 123, Three Men in a Boat and its successors. He was also a regular panellist on They Think It's All Over....
  
  comedian