Park View Community School
Park View Community School is a comprehensive school and sixth form in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England. The current Headmaster is Ian Vietch who recently replaced Alan Thompson, who left at the end of Easter Half Term. The school is a state school for children between 11 and 16, with the first two years being schooled on a separate site 2 miles away. The main park view site also has a community sixth form which offers further education study to students aged 16-18. The combined total of students taught in the two areas of the comprehensive school and the sixth form is 1463. The school is a language college, and as a result all students must take at least one language at GCSE level.
There has been a school on the main Park View site since 1908, the current school being founded 1952.
Awards and Recogntion
Park View Community School has been awarded Beacon school status, the International School Award, the Language for Export Award, the Artsmark Council Award, Sportsmark and Activemark Awards 2006, the Leading Edge School Award, and is recognised as a language college.
References
Park View Community School Website[1]
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