| Varndean College | |
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| Address | |
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Surrenden Road Brighton , East Sussex , BN1 6WQ England | |
| Coordinates | 50°51′06″N0°08′37″W / 50.8516°N 0.1435°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Sixth form college |
| Established | 1884 |
| Department for Education URN | 130668 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Principal | Donna-Marie Janson |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 16+ |
| Enrolment | 1800 |
| Website | http://www.varndean.ac.uk |
Varndean College is a sixth form college in Brighton and Hove that serves the needs of sixth form students and adults.
Varndean College is on Surrenden Road, in the northern part of Brighton. It shares the Surrenden campus with Balfour Junior School, Balfour Infants School, Dorothy Stringer School and Varndean Secondary School. [1] [2]
The college was founded in 1884 in York Place, Brighton, as a boys' secondary school and moved to its current site (overlooking the city and the sea) in 1932, later attaining grammar school status, becoming Varndean Grammar School for Boys, administered by the Education Committee for the County Borough of Brighton. In 1972 the first girls were admitted to the school (a small number of girls attended A level physics classes at the school in 1970–71), and in 1975 it became a sixth form college under its first principal, David A.G. Turner. [3]
Varndean Grammar School for Boys
Varndean College
 | This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy.(August 2017) |
The Old Varndeanian Association exists to maintain a network between former pupils and students of both the school and college, as well as former pupils of Varndean Girls' School. The association maintains contact with thousands of Old Varndeanians and organises regular reunions and other functions.
