| Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College | |
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| Location | |
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St. Mark's Avenue Yorkshire & Humbershire ,, LS2 9BL England | |
| Coordinates | 53°48′39″N1°33′10″W / 53.81075°N 1.55289°W /53.81075; -1.55289 |
| Information | |
| Type | Sixth form college |
| Motto | Ah! Qu'il est bon le Bon dieu (Ah! How good is the Good Lord) |
| Religious affiliation | Christianity |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Established | c. 1904 |
| Founder | Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur |
| School district | Public School |
| Local authority | Leeds City Council |
| Department for Education URN | 130548Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Chair | David Wright |
| Principal | Justine Barlow |
| Chaplain | Andrew Sullivan |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Age range | 16-19 |
| Enrolment | c. 2,000 |
| Average class size | 20 |
| Language | English |
| Hours in school day | 7 |
| Former name | Notre Dame Grammar School |
| Diocese | Leeds |
| Website | www |
Notre Dame is acatholicSixth Form College inLeeds, West Yorkshire, England. The college is situated on Saint Mark's Avenue, near the engineering departments of theUniversity of Leeds inWoodhouse, Leeds. It is near the (formerly C of E)St Mark's Church, Woodhouse, Leeds,[1] and the Leeds Universities Catholic Church and Centre.[2] It provides A-Level and vocational full-time courses in further education.
In 1898 theSisters of Notre Dame de Namur came to Leeds and to the two-classroom 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.[citation needed]
Notre Dame was one of three catholicdirect grant grammar schools in Leeds, and the second that was all-female from 1946.[3] It later was known as Notre Dame Grammar School. The school was handed over to thediocese in the 1970s when theSisters of Notre Dame changed their focus to education in developing countries.[citation needed]
The school became Notre Dame High School in 1978, a catholic comprehensive school for ages 13–19 with around 650 girls.[4] All the other Catholic direct grant schools in Leeds also changed 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 merge the boys and girls sixth forms together in one college (from, Notre Dame High School itself,Mount St Mary's, St Michael's College andCardinal Heenan Catholic High School). 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 theSisters of Notre Dame de Namur.[citation needed] Admissions for girls (Year 3, age 13–14 years old) ceased in 1989, with the school pupils present moving up each year, and a growing number of Sixth Form admissions.
Notre Dame currently has a student body of approximately 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.
