Barr's Hill School

Infobox UK school
name = Barr's Hill School and Community College


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established = October 1908
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type = Comprehensive
religion = Non-denominational
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head = Mr Robin R Brabban
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specialist = Engineering
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street = Radford Road
city = Coventry
county = West Midlands
country = England
postcode = CV1 4BU
LEA = Coventry City Council
ofsted = 103727
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enrollment = 611 (approx.)
gender = Coeducational
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.barrshill.coventry.sch.uk/
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Barr's Hill School and Community College is a comprehensive secondary school in Radford, Coventry, England.cite book|title = AA Street by Street. Coventry Rugby| publisher = AA Publishing | page = p.30|edition = 2nd edition (May 2003)| isbn = 0749539739] It was an all-girls grammar school until 1975 when boys became pupils there for the first time. It was founded in 1908 with an intake of 180 girls, the original school building being the former house of John Kemp Starley. [cite news|title = Milestone for city's first girls' School|work =Coventry Citivision |page = 5|publisher = Coventry City Council June 2008]

Famous Alumni

*Susan Hill, author of fiction and non-fiction. Novels include the "The Woman in Black", "The Mist in the Mirror" and "I'm the King of the Castle" for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971.

*Jennifer Page, former Chief Executive of the Millennium Dome project, sacked after a disastrous opening.

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