The Trafalgar School at Downton is a

Coeducational 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 ...

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located in Downton in the English county of

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

. The school began as a

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in 1964. Previously a

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administered by

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, in April 2017 The Trafalgar School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Magna Learning Partnership.

References

External links

The Trafalgar School at Downton official website
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