Soar Valley College

Soar Valley College
Motto	Enjoy, Aspire, Achieve
Established	15 March 1973
Type	Community school
Principal	Julie Robinson
Location	Gleneagles Avenue Leicester Leicestershire LE4 7GY England Coordinates: 52°39′36″N 1°06′24″W / 52.6600°N 1.1068°W / 52.6600; -1.1068
Local authority	Leicester
DfE number	856/4250
DfE URN	120286 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1218
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–16
Colours	Black And Yellow

Soar Valley College is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Leicester, England. The school was designated a Maths and Computing specialist college in September 2004. As part of the Building Schools for the Future initiative, the old college building has been torn down and being turned into the playing fields and the new Soar Valley building with iconic design has been built on the previous playing fields. They have also hosted the Special Olympics Netball games in the summer of 2009 in their newly built netball courts, on the other side of the campus to the newly built school. The Principal is Miss Robinson.

Construction now complete, the new building, cost approximately 21.5 Million GB Pounds

Its neighbouring school is Rushey Mead School (Secondary)

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Notable former pupils

Actress Parminder Nagra (Bend It Like Beckham, ER) attended the school.

Schools in Leicestershire (including Leicester)

Primary	Bishop Ellis Catholic Samworth Sir John Moore CofE

Middle	Brookvale High School Gartree High School Ibstock Community College Ivanhoe College Leysland High School Lutterworth High School Manor High School The Market Bosworth School St Martin’s Catholic Voluntary Academy Welland Park Academy Wigston Academy

Upper & secondary	Ashby School Babington Community College Beauchamp College Beaumont Leys School Belvoir High School Bosworth Academy Brockington College The Cedars Academy Charnwood College City of Leicester College Countesthorpe Community College Crown Hills Community College De Lisle College English Martyrs Catholic School Fullhurst Community College Groby Community College Hamilton Community College Hind Leys Community College Hinckley Academy Humphrey Perkins School John Ferneley College Judgemeadow Community College King Edward VII Science and Sport College Lancaster School Limehurst Academy Long Field Academy Lutterworth College Madani Schools Federation The Martin High School Moat Community College New College Leicester Rawlins Community College Robert Smyth Academy Roundhill Academy Rushey Mead School St Paul's Catholic School Samworth Enterprise Academy Sir Frank Whittle Studio School Sir Jonathan North Community College Soar Valley College South Charnwood High School Wigston College William Bradford Academy Winstanley Community College Woodbrook Vale Wreake Valley Academy

Sixth form	Gateway College Regent College Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College

Independent	Dixie Grammar School Emmanuel Christian School Fairfield Preparatory School Grace Dieu Manor School Leicester Grammar School Leicester High School for Girls Loughborough Grammar School Loughborough High School Our Lady's Convent School Ratcliffe College

Further education	Brooksby Melton College Leicester College Loughborough College South Leicestershire College

Special	Ellesmere College RNIB College

Former	Abington Academy Alderman Newton's School Burleigh Community College Bushloe High School Garendon High School King Edward VII School Mary Linwood Comprehensive School Riverside Business and Enterprise College Rosebery Primary School Sathya Sai School

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