| Season Number: | 6 |
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| Image Upright: | 1.15 |
| Num Episodes: | 20 |
| Network: | BBC One |
| Episode List: | List of Waterloo Road episodes |
The sixth series of the British television drama series Waterloo Road began broadcasting on 1 September 2010, and ended on 6 April 2011 on BBC One. The series follows the lives of the faculty and pupils of the Eponymous school, a failing inner-city comprehensive school. It consists of twenty episodes, divided into two half series of ten episodes each. The sixth series achieved an average of 5.11 million viewers in the ratings.
The show follows the lives of the teachers and the pupils at the eponymous school of Waterloo Road, a failing inner-city comprehensive, tackling a wide range of issues often seen as taboo such as a missing student, adultery, bulimia nervosa, bullying, sexism, contraception, an affair between a teacher and a pupil, child pornography, homelessness, young carers, a dog attack, Alzheimer's disease, postpartum psychosis, sexual exploitation, homosexuality, xenophobia and infertility.
See also: List of Waterloo Road episodes.
Three different box sets of the sixth series was released. The first ten episodes of the series were released on 7 February 2011,[2] and the back ten episodes were released on 20 June 2011.[3] All twenty episodes were later released together on 16 January 2012. They were released with a "15" British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) certificate (meaning it is unsuitable for viewing by those under the age of 15 years).[4]