Dawlish College (formerly Dawlish Community College) 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 ...

secondary school located in the town of Dawlish,

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, England. Its students come mainly from seven primary schools in the Dawlish Learning Partnership which is a large area between the

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and the

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. This large catchment area results in about half of the college's students travelling there by bus. In 2005 the college was awarded

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status under the (now defunct)

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. In 2018, Dawlish College joined a formal management partnership with

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, with its Principal, Paul Cornish, becoming Executive Principal of Dawlish College. From September 2018, the college has been re-branded, with a new name, logo, uniform and motto. In March 2019, the College was inspected by Ofsted and received a rating of "Good". In December 2019, Dawlish College became an

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, part of the Estuaries Multi Academy Trust, along with

and Starcross Primary School.

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