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Notre Dame RC School Type Voluntary aided school Religion Roman Catholic Headteacher Miss F Hutchings Founder St Julie Billiart (Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur) Specialism Humanities Location Looseleigh Lane
Plymouth
Devon
PL6 5HN
England
Local authority Plymouth DfE URN 113552 Ofsted Reports Students 807 Gender Girls, mixed in 6th form Ages 11–18 Houses Parks, Stang, Nightingale, Curie and Hepburn Former name Notre Dame High School Diocese Plymouth Website ndonline Coordinates: 50°25′17″N 4°07′38″W / 50.42151°N 4.12731°W
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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Admissions
The headteacher is Fiona Hutchings, who has been headteacher since 2001. It has 800 students attending: in the sixth form, boys may attend.
It is situated north of the A386, west of Plymouth City Airport (former RAF Roborough).
History
Notre Dame was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame under the guidance of St Julie Billiart,
It was housed next to Plymouth Cathedral but the site was bombed in 1941, so moved to a new building.
Direct grant grammar school
It was a catholic girls' direct grant grammar school, the Notre Dame High School from 1946.
In 1976 it was one of 51 direct grant schools, out of 170, that decided to become 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 Sister Dorothy Stang.
Academic performance
It gets good GCSE results, the second best comprehensive in Plymouth, but below average results at A level. It gets similar A level results to St Boniface's but much better GCSEs.
Alumni
Notre Dame High School
- Christine Crawley, Baroness Crawley, Labour MEP from 1984-99 for Birmingham East
- Prof Moira Whyte, Professor of Respiratory Medicine since 1996 at the Sheffield Medical School
See also
- St Boniface's Catholic College
- List of direct grant grammar schools
References
External links
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- Girls' schools in Devon
- Roman Catholic secondary schools in England
- Sisters of Notre Dame, UK
- Comprehensive schools in Devon
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