Marches School and Technology College

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The Marches School and Technology College
Headteacher Mr. W Graham Davies
Specialism Technology College
Location Morda Road
Oswestry
Shropshire
SY11 2AR
England
LEA Shropshire
Ofsted number 123584
Students 1350
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11 to 16
Website http://www.marches.shropshire.sch.uk/
Coordinates: 52°51′10″N 3°03′41″W / 52.85284, -3.06142

Marches School and Technology College is a public secondary school located in Oswestry, North-West Shropshire, UK. It is one of the largest and most well equipped schools in Shropshire[citation needed]. It has an enrolment of around 2000 pupils, in school year groups 7-11, key stages 3 and 4, ages 11/12 to 15/16.

The school runs a comenius project, which enables students to go, and visitors to come from, all over the world. The latest guests have been a Russian cosmonaut, who has been on the Mir Space Station, and a space specialist.

The school is well known for its extensive ICT equipment[citation needed], with the construction of the 'Digital Center', consisting of four rooms with brand new Dell Optiplex 170Ls in each. The school offers the DiDA GCSE qualification as of the 2005/2006 school year as an ICT subject.

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