Lutterworth College is a large 11–19 non-selective, inclusive, comprehensive, Church of England

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and

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College with

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status. Lutterworth College is situated in the rural market town of

Lutterworth Lutterworth is a market town and civil parish in the Harborough district of Leicestershire, England. The town is located in southern Leicestershire, close to the borders with Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. It is located north of Rugby, ...

in the district of

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, South Leicestershire. The school is a Church of England Voluntary Controlled school. There are approximately 1,600 pupils currently on roll, with around 400 of these being in post-16 education. The last full

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inspection was in November 2017 where the college was judged to be good in all aspects. In 2019 the school was inspected under the SIAMS framework and was judged good in all aspects. Part of the moral purpose of the college is ‘enabling all students to learn, flourish and succeed.’

History

There has been a school in Lutterworth at least since 1613 though the first part of Lutterworth College, then named ''Lutterworth Grammar School'' was built in 1880 to provide a middle class boys school for approximately 50 boarders and day scholars. The school remained an all boys grammar until 1902 when the school began to admit female pupils. The school has grown in size from 30 pupils in 1881 to over 2000 in 2010. In 2014 numbers began to fall alongside the college's main neighbouring feeder schools,

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, Brockington College and

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expanding their age ranges from 11-14 to 11-16, much like the rest of Leicestershire. In 2006, it was agreed to change the school’s name from ''Lutterworth Grammar School'' to ''Lutterworth College'', to reflect the fact that the college "is not a selective institution, but rather an inclusive one". In September 2015 the college admitted its first cohort of Year 7 pupils. In 2017, Lutterworth College became the highest attaining school in Leicestershire. In November 2017, OFSTED judged the school to be a Good school in all aspects.

Notable former pupils

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, author * Michael Casey, Professor of Music at

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, Olympic Athlete * Nick Cook, cricketer *

Jonathan Emmett Jonathan Emmett (born 10 December 1965) is a British children's author and pop-up book designer. He is best known for his picture books including ''Bringing Down the Moon'', ''Someone Bigger'' and ''The Princess and the Pig''. His books have w ...

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Jonnie Irwin Jonathan James Irwin (born 18 November 1973) is an English television presenter, writer, lecturer, business and property expert. Early life Irwin grew up on a small farm in the village of Bitteswell, Leicestershire. Irwin was educated at Lutter ...

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Kristyna Myles Kristyna Myles (born 10 May 1984) is a MOBO nominated British singer-songwriter who is currently based in Manchester. Originally from Leicestershire, she came into prominence after winning ''Busk Idol'', a 2005 nationwide singing competition org ...

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Anthony Thistlethwaite Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite (born 31 August 1955, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England) is a British multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member (with guitarist Mike Scott) of the folk rock group, The Waterboys and later as a long ...

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Alex Thomas Alex Thomas (born 10 October 1978) is an English drummer from Lutterworth, Leicestershire, who performs with Squarepusher and Air. He also performed with John Cale (2013). Thomas joined Bolt Thrower on 21 August 1997. He played drums on ''Merce ...

, musician * Simon Yates, mountaineer

References

External links

BBC article
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