Greenhead College is a former grammar school and current sixth form college located in Huddersfield, in the English county of West Yorkshire. The current principal is Martin Rostron.
With around 1800 pupils, it is a relatively large college, attracting pupils from as far afield as Wakefield, Manchester, Barnsley, Bradford, Leeds, Halifax, Oldham and even Wetherby.
Greenhead has a good reputation, with a regular annual flow of students into both O...
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Greenhead College is a former grammar school and current sixth form college located in Huddersfield, in the English county of West Yorkshire. The current principal is Martin Rostron.
With around 1800 pupils, it is a relatively large college, attracting pupils from as far afield as Wakefield, Manchester, Barnsley, Bradford, Leeds, Halifax, Oldham and even Wetherby.
Greenhead has a good reputation, with a regular annual flow of students into both Oxford and Cambridge universities.. The college topped The Guardian and The Independent A level college league tables in 2006. It came fourth in 2007, and sixth in 2008.
It has been criticised for selecting only the brightest students, but this has been denied by the principal Martin Rostron, saying "It's not true. We do take in students of all abilities".
Students from feeder schools are given priority to those from other schools, and are only required to obtain a minimum of five GCSE C grades (including a C in either Mathematics or English)...
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