| Motto | 为人正为人真 Behave with honesty, treat people with sincerity |
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| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Iain Veitch |
| Specialism | Language College |
| Location | Church Chare Chester-le-Street County Durham DH3 3QA England |
| Students | 1463 |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | www.parkviewonline.org.uk |
Park View School is an academy with a sixth form in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England.
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The school is a state-funded academy for children between 11 and 16, with the first two years taught on a separate site two miles north. The main Park View site also has a community sixth form which offers further education study to students aged 16–18. The number of students taught in the two areas of the school and the sixth form is 1463. The school has been granted Language College status.
Park View Community School opened in September 1911 when it was known as Chester-le-Street Secondary School. The school changed its name to Chester-le-Street Grammar School in 1944, the Deanery in 1969, Park View Comprehensive in 1976, then finally Park View Community School in 1982.[1] In July 2011, the school became an academy and changed its name to Park View School.
Park View generally gets good results, with the best GCSE and A level results in County Durham. Its A level results are as good as a grammar school.
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. It is a High Performing Specialist School and, as such, has an Applied Learning Second Specialism.
The school had its first student attain a place on the prestigious Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme in 2009.[2]