Earl Mortimer College is a

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and

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located in Leominster,

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, England. It is a community school administered by Herefordshire Council. It replaced the former Minster College and opened in September 2010. It is smaller than the average secondary school. Earl Mortimer College offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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and further BTECs.

School history

The school was originally established as the Minster School. In 2007 the council made the decision to rebuild the school to include a sixth form, using funding from

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. It then became the Minster College. The school owns the art work ''The Minster Triptych'' by David Jones and students of the school.

School performance and inspections

In 2000, inspection by

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judged the school to be improving. As of 2021, the school's most recent inspection was in 2017, with a judgement of Good.

References

External links

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