Harry Carlton Comprehensive School
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Harry Carlton Comprehensive School is a comprehensive school
located in a large village called East Leake
in the Rushcliffe
area of Nottinghamshire
. The school describes itself as specialising in ICT (Information Communication Technology) and Mathematics. The current head master is Graham Legg. The school has a roll of 1150. In September 2003, the school moved into a £20m new building, built with Private Finance Initiative
funding, and rented from Alfred McAlpine Business Services. The school shares its location with a leisure centre and Lantern Lane Primary & Nursery School.
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. The school was then called the East Leake County Secondary School. The first head was Mr Tyler.
A team from the school won a national competition in 2001 to predict UK base interest rates organised by the Bank of England
. The school received £10,000.
The school was rebuilt in 2002 as part of a private finance initiative. Before this the school had been flooded three times in one year.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
located in a large village called East Leake
East Leake
East Leake is a large village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe district of Nottinghamshire, England, although its closest town and postal address is Loughborough across the border in Leicestershire. It has a population of around 7,000. The original village was located on the Sheepwash Brook. ...
in the Rushcliffe
Rushcliffe
Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. Its council is based in West Bridgford. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging the West Bridgford Urban District, the Bingham Rural District and part of Basford Rural District.-Political representation:The...
area of Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire is a county in the East Midlands of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west...
. The school describes itself as specialising in ICT (Information Communication Technology) and Mathematics. The current head master is Graham Legg. The school has a roll of 1150. In September 2003, the school moved into a £20m new building, built with Private Finance Initiative
Private Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...
funding, and rented from Alfred McAlpine Business Services. The school shares its location with a leisure centre and Lantern Lane Primary & Nursery School.
Results
The school achieves higher GCSE results than both the national and Nottinghamshire averages although the highest recent result was in 2003 when 70% gained 5 A-C grades.History
The school was designed by Donald Gibson, the county architect, to accommodate 300 pupils. It was intended to reflect its rural location and allowed for the school to keep its own livestock. It was opened on the 27 July 1957 by Brigadier Martin Redmayne, DSODistinguished Service Order
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Territorial Decoration
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Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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. The school was then called the East Leake County Secondary School. The first head was Mr Tyler.
A team from the school won a national competition in 2001 to predict UK base interest rates organised by the Bank of England
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...
. The school received £10,000.
The school was rebuilt in 2002 as part of a private finance initiative. Before this the school had been flooded three times in one year.