Park View Community School

Park View Community School

"For schools of a similar name, see Park View School."

Park View Community School is a comprehensive school and sixth form in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England. The current Headmaster is Iain Vietch who recently replaced Alan Thompson, who left in 2007. The school is a state school for children between 11 and 16, with the first two years being schooled on a separate site two 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. It gets good results, with one of the best GCSE results in County Durham and the second best A level results in the county.

There has been a school on the main Park View site since 1908, the current school being founded 1952.

History

There has been a school on the main Park View site since 1908, the current school being founded 1952 as Park View Grammar School.

Academic performance

It gets good results, with the fourth GCSE results in County Durham and the second best A level results in the country.

Awards and Recognition

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.

External links

* [http://www.parkview.org.uk School Website]
* [http://www.edubase.gov.uk/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=114288 EduBase]


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