John Ruskin College
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| Motto | '...your career starts here' |
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| Established | 1920 |
| Type | Further education |
| Headteacher | Mohammed Ramzan |
| Location |
Selsdon Park Road (A2022) South Croydon Greater London CR2 8JJ United Kingdom Coordinates: 51°21′04″N 0°02′35″W / 51.351°N 0.043°W |
| Local authority | Croydon |
| DfE number | 306/8601 |
| DfE URN | 130434 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 14–19+ |
| Website | www |
John Ruskin College is a sixth form college situated in Addington Village, London, on the A2022 (Selsdon Park Road), close to the A212 roundabout. The college is accessible by tram via Gravel Hill tram stop.
A range of BTEC and NVQ Diplomas are offered in the following subject areas:
John Ruskin College was a former school in the London Borough of Croydon, which started life in 1920 as the John Ruskin Boys' Central School. Its location was Scarbrook Road, Croydon. Named after John Ruskin, it opened on 12 January 1920. The Lady Edridge School, its sister school for girls (later to become a grammar school in 1951) opened the same day. Lady Edridge was wife of a Mayor of Croydon and the first "Lady Freeman" of the Borough. It closed in 1980 and was demolished.
In 1935 the school moved to Tamworth Road, and in April 1945 it was granted grammar school status as the John Ruskin Grammar School for Boys (JRGS). It had been previously the John Ruskin Selective Central School. It moved to Upper Shirley Road, Shirley, in 1955, and was retitled the John Ruskin High School in 1971 before being demolished in 1991. The Upper Shirley Road site surrounded the Shirley Windmill, a 19th-century tower mill. The upper forms transferred to Selsdon to form the present John Ruskin College, utilising the premises previously known as John Newnham Secondary Selective School, named after a 20th-century town clerk of the old County Borough of Croydon.
The college should not be confused with John Ruskin Primary School, which is in Southwark, nor the John Ruskin School Technology College in Cumbria, nor Ruskin College, Oxford.
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