Notre Dame Catholic College is a Catholic secondary school and

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in Everton, Liverpool, England. Founded by the

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, it was a girls' school for most of its history but became coeducational from September 2012.

Admissions

The College became coeducational from September 2012, admitting boys into Year 7 for the first time. Boys were already undertaking Sixth Form education at Notre Dame Catholic College.

History

It was founded in February 1869. The Notre Dame Catholic College was originally the residence of the Sisters of Notre Dame in Liverpool, and began as a pupil-teacher centre with links to local primary schools. The collegiate school did not actually come into existence until 1902, with this merging with the pupil teacher centre in 1908.

Direct grant grammar school

It was known as Notre Dame Collegiate School at Everton Valley, and became a

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in 1946 as a result of the

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Comprehensive

The

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did not move out of the building until 1978 due to the expansion and the intake of the school building, and the school building also followed this expansion to pave the way for the institution to become an all-girls comprehensive school in 1983, which also tallied with the amalgamation of both St John's Secondary Modern School and St Catherine's Secondary Modern School to form Notre Dame High School in the same year. In 2001, the school inserted the word 'Catholic' into its title to become Notre Dame Catholic High School, but 2002 saw the school become a specialist 'Performing Arts College' – returning the institution to a College as it once originally was. The former all girls College started to accept boys into Year 7 from September 2012. Boys are already enrolled into Sixth Form. From September 2012, the royal blue uniform will change to all grey. In September 2013, the College moved to a new, state-of-the-art building next to Everton Park sports centre on Great Homer Street as part of the wider Project Jennifer scheme. Construction began on the new building in July 2012. On 2 September 2014 part of the old Notre Dame building was set a light. The fire started in the old sports hall.

Academic performance

The College achieved a 100% A-Level pass rate in 2010/2011 and will be enrolling girls and boys from September 2012.

Notable former pupils

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References

External links

School website

EduBase
{{authority control 1902 establishments in England Secondary schools in Liverpool Educational institutions established in 1902 Girls' schools in Merseyside Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Liverpool Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur schools Voluntary aided schools in England