Parkside Community College

Parkside Community College
Address
Map
Parkside

Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB1 1EH

England
Coordinates52°12′16″N 0°07′43″E / 52.20441°N 0.12851°E / 52.20441; 0.12851
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1913; 111 years ago (1913)
SpecialistMedia Arts College
Department for Education URN136636 Tables
OfstedReports
ChairMark Carrington
Head teacherDee Wallace
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 19
Enrollment600
TrustCambridge Academic Partnership
Websiteparkside.education

Parkside Community College is a secondary academy school with 600 places for children aged 11–16, situated in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. It is part of the United Learning Cambridge Cluster,[1] along with Parkside Sixth, Coleridge Community College, Trumpington Community College, and Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology (formerly UTC Cambridge). Cambridge Academic Partnership joined the United Learning group of academies as a unit in September 2019. It is located next to the main Cambridge Parkside Police Station, the main Cambridge Fire Station and the National Express coach stops. It is east of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

From 1960 to 1974 it was the Cambridge Grammar School for Girls, after which it became the co-educational comprehensive Parkside Community College. It was the first school in the UK to be designated a Media Arts College under the UK government's specialist schools programme, in 1997,[2] and was granted Foundation status in 2003.[3]

In 2005 Parkside Community College formed the Parkside Federation with Coleridge Community College, which had then been placed in special measures. The school achieved Academy status in 2011 when the federation converted to a multi-academy trust.[4] At the same time it opened a new sixth-form college, Parkside Sixth. In 2017 the trust changed its name to the Cambridge Academic Partnership.[5] The Cambridge Academic Partnership would later go on to change its name to the United Learning Cambridge Cluster.

The history of the school is related in An Epoch-Making School, by former Deputy Principal Rosemary Gardiner (1983).

  1. ^ "United Learning Cambridge Cluster". cap.education. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ Media Literacy in Schools: Practice, Production and Progression; Andrew Burn & James Durran, 2007
  3. ^ "City of Cambridge Education Foundation". Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. ^ "EDP: Seven secondary schools achieve academy status". Retrieved 24 February 2016.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Cambridge Academic Partnership | Multi-Academy Trust".