Long Road Sixth Form College

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Long Road Sixth Form College
Long Road Sixth Form College from the top floor of the D Block.jpg
Looking across towards the College's main buildings from the top floor of D Block.
Address
Long Road Sixth Form College
Long Road

, ,
CB2 8PX

Coordinates 52°10′41″N0°07′58″E / 52.178135°N 0.132784°E / 52.178135; 0.132784
Information
School type Public sector, sixth form college
Established1974;50 years ago (1974)
StatusOpen
Local authorityCambridgeshire LA
Ofsted Reports
ChairpersonIan Wilson
PrincipalYolanda Botham
Staff190
Gender Coeducation
Age16to 19
Enrolment2,300 (2017)
LanguageEnglish
Campus size23 acres (9.3 ha)
Colour(s)Purple, orange, red, green, teal, yellow
      
Sports Badminton, basketball, football, hockey, netball, rounders, rugby, tennis, cricket, volleyball
Feeder schools Bassingbourn Village College, Bottisham Village College, Cambourne Village College, Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, Chesterton Community College, Ely College, Coleridge Community College, Comberton Village College, Cottenham Village College, Impington Village College, Linton Village College, Manor Community College, Melbourn Village College, Netherhall School, Parkside Community College, Sawston Village College, Soham Village College, St Bedes Inter-Church School, Swavesey Village College, Trumpington Community College, Witchford Village College
Website www.longroad.ac.uk

Long Road Sixth Form College (LRSFC) is a state co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England. It is on Long Road, from which it draws its name, and is next to the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus which encompasses Addenbrooke's Hospital. The College provides full-time A level courses in addition to Level 3 Diploma courses, Level 2 Diploma courses and GCSE consolidation courses.

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History

Established in 1974, the College occupies a 23-acre (9.3 ha) site. [1] Prior to this it was the Cambridgeshire High School for Girls, a girls' grammar school. A significant proportion of the College's current buildings date from this period, although there has been extensive renovation and the construction of three new buildings, as well as a sports centre that opened in 2005 (the College's first new sports building since 1939). Other renovation projects included the expansion of the Learning Resource Centre (in 2010), performing arts studios (in June 2012) and the student centre (in November 2012). Science laboratories were updated in August 2013 and new teaching spaces for media diploma and business diploma courses were opened in August 2013. Additional classroom space was provided for sociology and for the Level 4 Foundation in art and design course (2015). There are extended classrooms for the Criminology Diploma (2016).

Academia

The College has approximately 2,300 full-time students, who are between the ages of 16 and 19. Most of these students study A level courses, with others taking Level 3 Diploma courses, one-year GCSE courses or Level 2 Diploma courses. [2]

Sports

The College has sport facilities including playing fields (a football pitch, a rugby pitch), floodlit all-weather hockey pitch, two outdoor basketball courts, two tennis courts, and an indoor sports centre which includes a gymnasium and an indoor basketball court. [3]

External clubs also use the College's facilities as their home venue, such as Cambridge South Hockey Club on the Hockey pitch and Cambridge Cats Basketball Club in the gymnasium.

Notable alumni

Cambridgeshire High School for Girls

Long Road Sixth Form College

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References

  1. "Long Road Sixth Form College - Inspection Report" (PDF). Ofsted. November 2008.
  2. "Long Road Sixth Form College - Inspection Report" (PDF). Ofsted. February 2014.
  3. "Long Road Sixth Form". Cambridge School Sports Partnership. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.