Type Foundation school DfE number 908/4146 Ofsted Reports | Headteacher Mrs Donna Bryant DfE URN 112043 Tables Phone +44 1326 572685 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Church HillHelstonCornwallTR13 8NREngland Profiles | ||
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Helston Community College (formerly Gwealhellis Secondary Modern School) is a coeducational foundation secondary school and sixth form located in Helston, in the English county of Cornwall.
The South Site of the school was previously a grammar school that had Derwent Coleridge as a headmaster, his pupils including Charles Kingsley, John Duke Coleridge, Richard Edmonds, Thomas Rowe Edmonds, John Rogers, Henry Trengrouse and James Trevenen.
As a foundation school, Helston Community College is administered by Cornwall Council and a Co-operative Trust. The school offers GCSEs, BTECs and City and Guilds courses as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.
Pupils from Helston Community College take part in the annual Furry Dance, and ancient Cornish custom which is held on the Feast of St. Michael.