Established 1959 Principal Katie Lowe DfE number 856/4249 | Type Community school Local authority | |
Location Keyham Lane West
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE5 1RT
England | ||
Hamilton College is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Leicester, England, taking children between the ages of eleven and sixteen. The head teacher (with the title of 'principal') is Katie Lowe.
The school was awarded the status of a specialist Technology College in September 2001. With a capacity of 1200, it is currently under-subscribed with some 941 pupils on roll, of whom 33 per cent have special educational needs. In 2013, 68 per cent of the school's fifteen-year-old pupils achieved five or more GCSE passes at grades A* to C, with 50 per cent of pupils doing so including GCSE English and Maths. In 2014, 55% of students achieved 5 GCSE grades A*-C including English and Maths, this figure dropped to 25% in 2015. In 2016, the school achieved a progress 8 score of -0.73, placing it in the bottom 10% of schools in England.
In October 2016, the school was rated by Ofsted as "Inadequate" in all areas.