Loreto High School is a coeducational Catholic high school in the

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suburb of

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. It was the first IVBM (

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) school to be coeducational from the very beginning and the first Loreto secondary school in the area since Loreto College was reduced to a

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during the 1970s.

History

Loreto High School was originally St Thomas Aquinas High School, formerly Marist High School, a girls' grammar school founded during the 1960s. Prior to the rebranding, St Thomas Aquinas had a poor reputation in the community. It came under the trusteeship of the Loreto Sisters and was renamed Loreto High School in 2007.

Academics

Since the renaming, the school's academic performance has improved. It was rated "outstanding" and "good" in all aspects at the 2010

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inspection report and has been commended by

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for "good practice" in its teaching. In March 2020, due to the

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, the school, along with all of the schools in the UK and abroad, was shut until further notice, leaving students into home learning. Due to their

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s being cancelled, the Year 11 students left the school three months earlier.

References

External links

School websiteProfile
on

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St Thomas Aquinas RC High School
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