New College Leicester | |
Coordinates: | 52.6421°N -1.1799°W |
Type: | Foundation school |
Head Label: | Principal |
Head: | Jane Brown |
Address: | Greencoat Road New Parks |
City: | Leicester |
County: | Leicestershire |
Country: | England |
Postcode: | LE3 6RN |
Local Authority: | Leicester City Council |
Ofsted: | yes |
Urn: | 131945 |
Gender: | Coeducational |
Lower Age: | 11 |
Upper Age: | 18 |
Website: | http://www.newcollege.leicester.sch.uk/ |
New College Leicester (formed in 1999/2000 in a merger between New Parks Community College, Alderman Newton's School, and Wycliffe Community College) is a coeducational foundation secondary school and sixth form, located in the New Parks area of Leicester in the English county of Leicestershire.[1]
New College Leicester became a foundation school in June 2010. As a foundation school it is administered by a trust which includes Leicester City Council, Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College and the CfBT Education Trust.[2] [3]
The school offers GCSEs, BTECs and ASDAN qualifications as programmes of study for pupils; those in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.[4]