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Abbey College is a secondary school located in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, England. The school is around 10 miles from Huntingdon and Peterborough and offers education for 11-18 year olds in its surroundings town/areas. 1011 students attend the school (capacity only at 1250). In 2020 the school appeared in the local news due to teachers at Abbey College attaching head and shoulder photographs of more than 110 sixth-form students to a board now nicknamed the "shame board" by students due to its ranking of "effort and progress into work"[1] and appeared once again in 2023 after allegations against a teacher.[2]
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Abbey Road , , PE26 1DG England 52°26′51″N 0°05′51″W / 52.4474°N 0.0976°W | |
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| Motto | HIP (Humility, Intuition, Passion) |
| Established | 2006 |
Local authority | Cambridgeshire |
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| Ofsted | Reports |
Head teacher | Andy Christoforou |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1,011 |
| Houses | 4 Green (Churchill) Yellow (Da Vinci) Blue (Hawking) Red (Woolf) |
| Colours | Red (Year 7) Blue (Year 8) White (Year 9) Green (Year 10) Yellow (Year 11) |
| Website | www |
History
editGrammar school
editThe school was the former Ramsey Abbey Grammar School. Also in Ramsey was the Ailwyn Secondary Modern School.
Comprehensive school
editIn 2006, Ailwyn Community College and Ramsey Abbey School joined into a single school, Abbey college. The building had been active for centuries before the school had even been founded due to being a monastery founded by monks, whereas The Ailwyn was founded in the 1950s.
On 1 September 2011, the school officially gained academy status. Also in 2011, the school was labelled by Ofsted as "A good school with outstanding features". In both 2014 & 2016, it was labelled as "Requires Improvement." In 2018, the school re-obtained the status of "Good" from Ofsted.[3]
More information about the Abbey here: Ramsey Abbey
Notable former pupils
edit- Charlotte Edwards, cricketer, captain of the England women's team[4]
Ramsey Abbey Grammar School
edit- Robbie Gibb, director of communications from 2017-19 for the prime minister[5]
- Sir Richard Barnett (economist) vice-chancellor from 2006-15 of Ulster University[6]
- Charles Joy, attended from 1923–28, became the chief designer of Handley Page from 1953 to 1968, being responsible for the Handley Page Jetstream aircraft
References
edit- ↑ Abigail O'Leary (30 January 2020). "Headteacher used 'damaging' name and shame notice board pitting students against peers". Daily Mirror.
- ↑ "Ramsey teacher banned for 'inappropriate' messages to pupil". BBC News. 27 November 2023.
- ↑ College, Abbey. "Abbey College, Ramsey Cambridgeshire - Ofsted". www.abbeycollege.cambs.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ "Passed/Failed: An education in the life of Charlotte Edwards, captain of the England women's cricket team". The Independent. 27 May 2009. Retrieved 17 March 2026.
- ↑ "Gibb, Sir Robbie Paul, (born 29 Sept. 1964), Director of Communications, No 10 Downing Street, 2017–19", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2022, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u289747, retrieved 1 September 2025
- ↑ "Barnett, Sir Richard (Robert)". Who's Who (UK). 1 December 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2026.