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Established
  
1965

Headteacher
  
Anne Gregory

Phone
  
+44 116 241 3984

Founded
  
1965

Staff
  
500

Type
  
Community school

DfE URN
  
120297 Tables

Number of students
  
1,496

Local authority
  
Leicester City Council

City of Leicester College

Deputy Headteacher
  
Mr Morris , Hilary Foster, John Andrews

Location
  
Downing Drive Evington Leicester Leicestershire LE5 6LN England

Address
  
Downing Drive, Leicester LE5 6LN, United Kingdom

Similar
  
Leicester College, Judgeme Community College, Regent College, Gateway College - Hamilton, University of Leicester

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The City of Leicester College is a mixed secondary school for ages 11–18 in Evington, Leicester, England. It has around 2000 pupils and specialises in business and enterprise.

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Description

City of Leicester College is in the east of Leicester on Downing Drive, off Spencefield Lane (B667)

The college provides education for ages between 11-19 for different levels from GCSEs to BTECs as well as a sixth-form college. It offers a wide variety of courses but specialises in Business. It is not to be confused with the former City of Leicester College of Education in Scraptoft, which was taken over by De Montfort University and then bulldozed in 2006.

As of 2009 the headmistress is Anne Gregory.

History

The school was founded in 1920 as the City Boys' School, on East Bond Street. In 1928 it moved to Humberstone Gate, to the former buildings of the Wyggeston Hospital Girls' School, which moved to a site in Regent Road which is now the Regent College sixth form. After 1944 the City Boys' School became City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School. In 1966 it moved to the Wyvern building on Downing Drive. The Humberstone Gate building, built in 1878, was used for a few years by Charles Keene College (subsequently merged with Southfields College to form Leicester College) and is now the Leicester headquarters of Age Concern.

It became known as the City of Leicester School when it became a mixed comprehensive in 1976. It merged with the Spencefield School in 1985. The Spencefield building on Downing Drive became the lower school which is now the Gill building, named after former Headmaster Mr. Gill.

It gained specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College in September 2003, and the Business and Enterprise Centre (BEC) was created at the Wyvern Building.

Notable former pupils

City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School:

  • Alastair Campbell, journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author
  • Sir George Deacon CBE, oceanographer and President of the Royal Institute of Navigation from 1961-64
  • Paul Dempsey (presenter), sports broadcaster for Setanta Sports
  • Prof J. F. C. Harrison, Professor of History from 1970-82 at the University of Sussex
  • Keith Hill, Labour MP for Streatham
  • Flt Lt Harry Humphries, Adjutant of 617 Squadron during the Dambusters raid and the rest of the war
  • Michael Kitchen, actor
  • Gary Lineker OBE, retired footballer and current pundit and presenter of Match of the Day, and former Captain of Leicestershire Schools cricket team
  • Joe Melia, actor
  • Sir Roger Sims, Conservative MP for Chislehurst from 1974–97
  • Trafford Smith, Ambassador to Burma from 1967–70

    • City of Leicester School:

  • Emile Heskey, footballer

    • References

    City of Leicester College Wikipedia
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