Huddersfield New College
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| Motto | Success For All |
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| Established | 1958 |
| Type | Sixth Form College |
| Principal | Angela Williams |
| Chairman of Governors | Linda Summers |
| Location |
New Hey Road Huddersfield West Yorkshire HD3 4GL England Coordinates: 53°39′11″N 1°50′17″W / 53.653°N 1.838°W |
| Local authority | Kirklees |
| DfE number | 382/8601 |
| DfE URN | 130539 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | c. 2,350 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 16–18 |
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| Website | www |
Huddersfield New College is a former grammar school and current sixth form college located in Salendine Nook on the outskirts of Huddersfield, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The current Principal is Angela Williams. On 17 May 2016 the college was assessed as 'Outstanding' in all 6 inspection domains following an OFSTED review. They are the first Sixth Form College to receive such an accolade under the new (September 2016) inspection framework.
It should not be confused with Huddersfield Technical College, which became Kirklees College in 2008. Like most sixth form colleges, good performance at GCSE is required to attend. It is situated to the west of the town, on New Hey Road (A640) less than a mile from junction 23 of the M62.
The college was founded in 1958 when the existing Huddersfield College (founded in 1839) was merged with Hillhouse Technical School to form a new boys' grammar school at a new campus at Salendine Nook with 950 boys. Henry Ernest Atkins, the chess master, had been Principal from 1909-36. In 1959, the girls-only Longley Technical High School moved to the campus, with a new school called Huddersfield High School also on New Hey Road with 700 girls run by Huddersfield Education Committee. Princess Margaret opened the girls' school on the campus on 14 November 1958. The whole site, including Salendine Nook High School, had cost £1 million. Sir Edward Boyle opened Huddersfield New College on 26 March 1958.
The last admission of 11-year-olds was in 1972, and the college then began a gradual transition from a boys only grammar school to a co-educational sixth form college. During the dissolution of the grammar schools under Harold Wilson's watch, (an old boy of the nearby Royds Hall Grammar School), he infamously said that grammar schools would be dismantled over his dead body. However the sixth form college has retained much of the academic-minded ethos of his former school.
It became a sixth form college when the two grammar schools, Huddersfield New College and Huddersfield High School, gradually merged from 1973. In 1974 it was administered by Kirklees Metropolitan Council until 1993 when funded by the FEFC. In 2001 it was administered by West Yorkshire LSC, whose executive director was Margaret Coleman, a former Principal of the College.
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