All Saints Catholic College, Huddersfield - 1484-426466

All Saints Catholic College is a Roman Catholic secondary school situated in Bradley Bar, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.HistoryAll Saints Catholic College was formed as a Comprehensive school in 1973 with the merger of St. Gregory's RC Grammar school and St. Augustine's RC Secondary Modern school, which had previously existed on the same site.In 2006, it achieved specialist Humanities College status.Grammar schoolOriginally, St. Gregory's R.C. Grammar school was run as a catholic voluntary aided grammar school by Huddersfield Education Committee. It had around 500 students in the early 1960s, which rose to 800 by the early 1970s.AdmissionsAll Saints takes Catholic students from a number of Primary schools in the Huddersfield and Halifax areas of West Yorkshire. There are also a number of non-Catholic students at the school, and admission is not solely based on religion.All Saints is a feeder school to a number of local colleges including Greenhead College, Huddersfield New College and Kirklees College.Academic performanceGCSE results have improved over the last few years with the percentage of students gaining 5 GCSE's at grade A*-C rising from 42% in 2010 to 57% in 2013 with the best results ever achieved in 2014 of 63%. This now places the school broadly in line with national averages.

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