Notre Dame Catholic School

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Notre Dame RC School
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Notre Dame Catholic School
Looseleigh Lane

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PL6 5HN

England
Coordinates 50°25′17″N4°07′38″W / 50.4215°N 4.1273°W / 50.4215; -4.1273
Information
Type Academy
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established1865
Founders Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Local authority Plymouth
Department for Education URN 140737 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherMichael Antram
GenderFemales (males in sixth form)
Age11to 18
Enrolment728
HousesParks, Stang, Nightingale, Curie and Hepburn
Former nameNotre Dame High School
Diocese Plymouth
Website http://www.ndonline.org

Notre Dame RC School is a Roman Catholic school for girls in Derriford, Plymouth, England. Its sister school is St Boniface's Catholic College.

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The former headteacher, Fiona Hutchings, was headteacher from 2001 until July 2012. Kate White, the current headteacher, assumed Hutchings' position in September 2012. It has 879 students attending. In the sixth form, boys may attend.

It is situated north of the A386, west of the now-closed Plymouth City Airport.

History

It was originally next to Plymouth Cathedral but the site was bombed in 1941. In 1965 a new school building was completed on the grounds of the convent at Looseleigh Lane in Derriford.[ clarification needed ] Sister Mary Xavier was the headmistress.

Direct grant grammar school

The school was a Catholic girls' direct grant grammar school from 1946, the Notre Dame High School.

In 1976 it was one of 51 direct grant schools, out of 170, that became comprehensive.

Comprehensive

In 1981 it amalgamated with the Bishop Vaughan Secondary School to become Notre Dame Comprehensive School for Girls. [1] St Boniface's became a comprehensive at the same time.

In 1993 boys were accepted in the sixth form and the school became Notre Dame Roman Catholic School.

Notre Dame had much building work done in the academic year 2007/8: among this was a large professional sports hall, a library and a five-classroom block for history and geography named Stang Block after Dorothy Stang.

Academy

The school converted to academy status on 1 April 2014.

Academic performance

In 2019, at GCSE, the school's Progress 8 score was average. [2] The proportion of pupils entering the English Baccalaureate was below average, as was the percentage of pupils attaining Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs and the school's Attainment 8 score. [2]

The average result at the school for A level in 2019 was C−, just below the Plymouth and England figures. [3]

Notable former pupils

Notre Dame High School

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References

  1. Direct Grant status
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  3. "Notre Dame RC School". Find and compare schools in England. Gov.UK. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
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