Abbey College, Ramsey

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Abbey College
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Address
Abbey College, Ramsey
Abbey Road

, ,
PE26 1DG

England
Coordinates 52°26′51″N0°05′51″W / 52.4474°N 0.0976°W / 52.4474; -0.0976
Information
MottoHIP (Humility, Intuition, Passion)
Established2006
Local authority Cambridgeshire
Department for Education URN 137377 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherAndy Christoforou
Age11to 18
Enrolment1,011
Houses4
  Green (Churchill)
  Yellow (Da Vinci)
  Blue (Hawking)
  Red (Woolf)
Colour(s)  White (Year 7)
  Green (Year 8)
  Yellow (Year 9)
  Red (Year 10)
  Blue (Year 11)
Website www.abbeycollege.cambs.sch.uk

Abbey College is a secondary school located in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, England. The school is around 10 miles from Huntingdon and Peterborough and offers education for 11-18 year olds in its surroundings town / areas. 1011 students attend the school (capacity only at 1250). In 2020 the school appeared in the local news due to teachers at Abbey College attaching head and shoulder photographs of more than 110 sixth-form students to a board now nicknamed the "shame board" by students due to its ranking of "effort and progress into work" and appeared once again in 2023 after allegations against a teacher.

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History

Grammar school

The school was the former Ramsey Abbey Grammar School. Also in Ramsey was the Ailwyn Secondary Modern School.

Comprehensive school

In 2006, Ailwyn Community College and Ramsey Abbey School joined into a single school, Abbey college. The building had been active for centuries before the school had even been founded due to being a monastery founded by monks, whereas The Ailwyn was founded in the 1950s.

On 1 September 2011, the school officially gained academy status. Also in 2011, the school was labelled by Ofsted as "A good school with outstanding features". In both 2014 & 2016, it was labelled as "Requires Improvement." In 2018, the school re-obtained the status of "Good" from Ofsted. [1]

More information about the Abbey here: Ramsey Abbey

Notable former pupils

Ramsey Abbey Grammar School

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Brochure in 1968 for the Jetstream, designed by Charles Joy

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References

  1. College, Abbey. "Abbey College, Ramsey Cambridgeshire - Ofsted". www.abbeycollege.cambs.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.