William Bradford Community College

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name = William Bradford Community College


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head_label = Principal
head = Mrs Caroline Churchill
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specialist = Technology College
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street = Heath Lane
city = Earl Shilton
county = Leicestershire
country = England
postcode = LE9 7PD
LEA = Leicestershire
ofsted = 120276
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enrollment = 748
gender = Coeducational
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upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.williambradford.leics.sch.uk
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William Bradford Community College is a co-educational comprehensive Upper School and technology college in Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, England formally known as Earl Shilton Community College. The colleges subject strengths are ICT,Science and Design.

Admissions

It takes students from the age of fourteen until eighteen or nineteen. Most join the college from local high schools and 14% have special educational needs. The school has recently been named as the only in Leicestershire National Challenge school

History

TBA

Overseas links

The college has links in China, as of 1998. The college has links to Mianyang Nanshan Bilingual School in the Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China. There have been many visits between schools; the most recent in July 2007. Eights students and two teachers from Earl Shilton visited Mianyang to display their performing arts skills.

Academic performance

It gets the second lowest GCSE results in Leicestershire, but reasonable A level results.

External links

* [http://www.williambradford.leics.sch.uk William Bradford Community College] - official web site
* [http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/school_06.pl?Mode=Z&No=8554059&Type=LA&Num=855&Phase=2&Year=06&Base= William Bradford Community College] at dcsf.gov.uk
* [http://www.edubase.gov.uk/EstablishmentView.aspx?EstablishmentID=20258 EduBase]

News items

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2008/06/080605_china_earthquake_school_twin.shtml Heliping with chinese earthquake in June 2008]