Ashford County Grammar School
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| Established | 1911 |
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| Closed | 2007 |
| Type | further education college |
| Founder | Middlesex County Council |
| Location |
Church Road Ashford Surrey (Middlesex) TW15 2XD England 51°26′06″N 0°27′47″W / 51.435°N 0.463°WCoordinates: 51°26′06″N 0°27′47″W / 51.435°N 0.463°W |
| Local authority | Surrey |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 16+ |
| Former name | Ashford Sixth Form College (1965–75) Ashford County Grammar School (1911–65) |
Spelthorne College was a single-campus sixth form college on High Street, Ashford, Surrey, England. It was formed in 1975 as a successor to Ashford Sixth Form College and Sunbury Sixth Form College. Its campus was founded in 1911 as Ashford County Grammar School, which became a sixth form college in 1965. In 2007 Spelthorne College merged with Brooklands College in Weybridge.
Middlesex County Council founded the school in 1911 as Ashford County Grammar School, funded by the combined county and district local rates collected by Staines Rural District Council (RDC). It taught children of secondary school age from 11 to 18.
In 1965 Middlesex County Council was dissolved and Ashford was made part of Surrey. The school continued as a grammar school until some time in the 70s when Surrey County Council transferred the school's 11- to 15-year-old pupils to other schools and turned Ashford County Grammar into Ashford Sixth Form College. In 1974 Staines RDC was dissolved and its area became part of the new Spelthorne Borough Council (SBC). In 1975 the college absorbed pupils and staff from Sunbury Sixth Form College and was renamed Spelthorne College.
Spelthorne College's archive is lodged with Spelthorne Museum.
As the college provided education in England and Wales to children more than 16 years old, in 1992 its funding passed to the Further Education Funding Council for England, later replaced by the Learning and Skills Council. The college performed well in external reviews, for instance gaining 23–24 points in the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's (QAA) review of its higher education provision in business studies.
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