Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College
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| Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College | |
| Established | 1904 |
| Type | LSC funded |
| Principal | Dr. A. Adlard |
| Location | Leeds West Yorkshire England |
| Students | approx. 1500 |
| Website | www.notredamecoll.ac.uk |
Notre Dame Sixth Form College is in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
[edit] History
The college was formed in September 1989 as the sixth form centre for Catholic education in Leeds. For nearly ninety years prior to its opening, a girls’ school was present on the same site. This was one of a network of girls’ secondary schools in England and Scotland which belonged to the Sisters of Notre Dame college.
In 1898, the Sisters came to Leeds and to the two-classroomed parish school of St Anne’s situated behind it. In 1904 the main part of what is now the Sixth Form College was built and opened as Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls from the age of eleven to fourteen. The school was handed over to the diocese in the 1970s when the Sisters changed their focus in boys, notre dame college girls college decided to join boys and girls together in one college.
It currently has student body of aprox 1500 pupils between the 2 years (of A levels); giving it a 10 times larger student body than the average leeds highschool 6th form.
