The Ramsey College is a Secondary School

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 in Halstead

Halstead

Halstead is a town and civil parish located in Braintree District of Essex, England, near Colchester and Sudbury. It has a population of 11,053. The town is situated in the Colne Valley, and originally developed on the hill to the north of the river...

, Essex

Essex

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, England

England

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. As of July 2007 it was awarded certified special needs status. It is a mixed

Coeducation

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 school, with no denominational religion. The 2006 Ofsted

Ofsted

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 report averaged the college at a satisfactory grade.

History

In 1975 Earls Colne Grammar School

Earls Colne Grammar School

Earls Colne Grammar School, the Grammar School of Earls Colne, founded in 1520 and closed in 1975.-Foundation:Earls Colne Grammar School was founded in 1520 when the Reverend Christopher Swallow, vicar of Messing endowed land in trust to the Earl of Oxford, the income from which was to support a...

and a few other local schools amalgamated into The Ramsey College, as part of the re-organisation of schooling along comprehensive lines. Ramsey still continues its bitter rivalry with local school, Hedingham.