Penrice Community College is an age 11-16 state school and specialist Language College in St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Almost 1300 pupils attend.

History

It opened in the 1960s as a secondary modern school, Penrice Secondary Modern School, becoming a comprehensive in the 1970s.

Curriculum

Languages taught include French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and some Cornish. It is also an International School having received a Gold International School Award from the British Council in November 2006.

Admissions

The college has a teacher training programme and has achieved Training School status. It has been awarded second specialist status in Vocational Education and is collaborating with other local schools and colleges on vocational courses. The headteacher is David Parker, who took over fully in September 2006.

The uniform was changed in September 2006 by the students filling out a form in PSHE lessons in June 2006. The old uniform was blue, black and white, the new one is now only black and white.

Academic performance

It achieves reasonable, above-average GCSE results. Like most secondary schools in Cornwall, it does not have a sixth form.

Alumni

• David Dunn, High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea since 2007

External links

• EduBase
• School information at the TES