Holsworthy Community College is a

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

secondary school located in

Holsworthy Holsworthy is a market town and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Torridge District, Torridge district of Devon, England, some west of Exeter. The River Deer, a tributary of the River Tamar, forms the western boundary of the paris ...

in the English county of

Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...

. Previously a community school administered by Devon County Council, Holsworthy Community College became a foundation school on 31 August 2012 as part of a federation with

Okehampton College Okehampton College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Okehampton in the English county of Devon. History Previously a foundation school administered by Devon County Council, in January 2018 Okehampton College con ...

. In January 2018 the school converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust. Holsworthy Community College offers

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, BTECs and

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as programmes of study for pupils. The school was awarded specialist

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status on 1 September 2006 which funded a science and technology extension to the building.

References

External links

Holsworthy Community College official website
Secondary schools in Devon Academies in Devon Holsworthy {{Devon-school-stub