The Hurst Community College
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| Motto | Ambition Commitment Excellence Respect |
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| Type | Community School |
| Location |
Brimpton Road Baughurst Tadley Hampshire RG26 5NL England 51°21′28″N 1°10′26″W / 51.35768°N 1.17393°WCoordinates: 51°21′28″N 1°10′26″W / 51.35768°N 1.17393°W |
| Local authority | Hampshire |
| DfE URN | 116422 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1000 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | www |
The Hurst Community College, previously The Hurst Community School, is a school in the village of Baughurst, which is in the county of Hampshire in England.
The school provides secondary education for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16. It is categorised as a community school, which means it is run wholly by the local education authority (LEA). The school was previously granted specialist science status, for which the school received funding additional to its normal budget. However the school remained a comprehensive school, and did not take the option available to specialist schools to select a proportion of its pupils.
Though the school does not provide higher education, it has links with both Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke and the Basingstoke College of Technology, where the majority of pupils continue education after the age of 16.
The school has approximately 940 pupils. Pupils come from a catchment area which includes the nearby town of Tadley and the villages of Silchester, Bramley, and Sherborne St John.
Students in the school are divided among four houses, named after ships of the United Kingdom Royal Navy: Challenger, Endeavour, Invincible, and Victory. These houses compete in sports, talent contests and other events. Each house consists of mixed age tutor groups.
The school was attended by Kathy Smallwood-Cook in the 1970s and actor James Bye in the 1990s.
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