Established 1904 Religion Roman Catholic Phone +44 113 294 6644 | Type Sixth form college DfE number 383/8600 Total enrollment 1,500 (2010) Principal Terry Coen | |
Founder Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Location St. Mark's Avenue
Leeds
West Yorkshire
LS2 9BL
England Address St Mark's Avenue, Leeds LS2 9BL, United Kingdom Similar Leeds City College, University of Leeds, Mount St Mary's Catholic, Cardinal Heenan Catholic, Roundhay School Profiles | ||
Notre Dame is a Sixth Form College in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The college is situated just east of Woodhouse Lane (A660 road) and the engineering departments of the University of Leeds in Woodhouse, Leeds. It is near St Mark's (C of E) church, and the Leeds Universities Catholic Church and Centre.
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Notre dame catholic sixth form college
History
In 1898 the Sisters of Notre Dame came to Leeds and to the two-classroomed parish school of St Anne’s situated behind it. In 1904 the main part of what is now the Sixth Form College was built and opened as Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls from the age of eleven to fourteen.
Notre Dame was one of three catholic direct grant grammar schools in Leeds, and the second that was all-female from 1946. It later was known as Notre Dame Grammar School. The school was handed over to the diocese in the 1970s when the Sisters of Notre Dame changed their focus to education in developing countries.
The school became the Notre Dame High School in 1978, a catholic comprehensive school for ages 13–19 with around 650 girls. All the other Catholic direct grant schools in Leeds also changed in this year.
The sixth form college was formed in September 1989 as the sixth form centre for Catholic education in Leeds. It was decided to join boys and girls sixth-forms together in one college (from Mount St Mary's and St Michael's). For nearly ninety years before this, a girls’ school was present on the same site. This was one of a network of girls’ secondary schools in England and Scotland which belonged to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
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Notre Dame currently has student body of approx 2,000 pupils between the 2 years (of A levels); giving it a ten times larger student body than the average Leeds Sixth form. It is a Roman Catholic faith institution, and the only one of that denomination in the city for ages 16–18.