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Long Road Sixth Form College

Field	Value
name	Long Road Sixth Form College
logo	Long Road Sixth Form College logo.jpg
image	Long Road Sixth Form College from the top floor of the D Block.jpg
image_size	240px
caption	Looking across towards the College's main buildings from the top floor of D Block.
streetaddress	Long Road
city	Cambridge
county	Cambridgeshire
postcode	CB2 8PX
country	England
coordinates
schooltype	sixth form college
fundingtype	Public sector
established
status	Open
LEA	Cambridgeshire LA
ofsted	130616
chairperson	Hugo Macey
principal	Steve Dann
staff	190
gender	Coeducation
lower_age	16
upper_age	19
enrolment	2,300
colours	Purple, orange, red, green, teal, yellow

sports	Badminton, basketball, football, hockey, netball, rounders, rugby, tennis, cricket, volleyball
language	English
campus size	23 acre
enrollment_as_of	2017
feeders	Bassingbourn Village College, Bottisham Village College, Cambourne Village College, Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, Chesterton Community College, Ely College, Coleridge Community College, Comberton Village College, Cottenham Village College, Impington Village College, Linton Village College, Manor Community College, Melbourn Village College, Netherhall School, Parkside Community College, Sawston Village College, Soham Village College, St Bedes Inter-Church School, Swavesey Village College, Trumpington Community College, Witchford Village College
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Long Road Sixth Form College (LRSFC) is a state co-educational sixth form college in Cambridge, England. It is on Long Road, from which it draws its name, and is next to the Cambridge Bio-Medical Campus which encompasses Addenbrooke's Hospital. The College provides full-time A level courses in addition to Level 3 Diploma courses, Level 2 Diploma courses and GCSE consolidation courses.

History

Established in 1974, the College occupies a 23 acre site. Prior to this it was the Cambridgeshire High School for Girls, a girls' grammar school. A significant proportion of the College's current buildings date from this period, although there has been extensive renovation and the construction of three new buildings, as well as a sports centre that opened in 2005 (the College's first new sports building since 1939). Other renovation projects included the expansion of the Learning Resource Centre (in 2010), performing arts studios (in June 2012) and the student centre (in November 2012). Science laboratories were updated in August 2013 and new teaching spaces for media diploma and business diploma courses were opened in August 2013. Additional classroom space was provided for sociology and for the Level 4 Foundation in art and design course (2015). There are extended classrooms for the Criminology Diploma (2016).

Academia

The College has approximately 2,300 full-time students, who are between the ages of 16 and 19. Most of these students study A level courses, with others taking Level 3 Diploma courses, one-year GCSE courses or Level 2 Diploma courses.

Sports

The College has sport facilities including playing fields (a football pitch, a rugby pitch), floodlit all-weather hockey pitch, two outdoor basketball courts, two tennis courts, and an indoor sports centre which includes a gymnasium and an indoor basketball court.

External clubs also use the College's facilities as their home venue, such as Cambridge South Hockey Club on the Hockey pitch and Cambridge Cats Basketball Club in the gymnasium.

Notable alumni

Cambridgeshire High School for Girls

P. D. James, crime writer
Jean Purdy, nurse and embryologist
Margaret Spufford, historian
Frances Stewart, development economist

Long Road Sixth Form College

Sam Corley, Anglican bishop
Heather Craney, actor who has appeared in Vera Drake, Life of Riley and Torchwood
Everton Fox, weather presenter who previously presented for BBC Weather
Emerald O'Hanrahan, actor who plays Emma Carter in The Archers
Nick Mulvey, musician, twice nominated for the Mercury Music Prize
Thomas Ridgwell, known for his internet videos under the name TomSka
Rowan Robertson, musician, recruited to play guitar for Dio at age 17

References

(November 2008). "Long Road Sixth Form College - Inspection Report". Ofsted.
(February 2014). "Long Road Sixth Form College - Inspection Report". Ofsted.
"Long Road Sixth Form". Cambridge School Sports Partnership.
(14 June 2015). "The Oldham Notebooks: an analysis of the development of IVF 1969–1978. V. The role of Jean Purdy reassessed". Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online.

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