Welcome from the College Principal...

It gives me great pleasure to introduce the City of Ely Community College website.

The College has come a long way in recent years thanks to a lot of very hard and determined work from all who work in the College. Standards have risen considerably in recent years. In 2007, we achieved our best ever results at GCSE with 53% of students achieving 5 or more higher grades, the best in the College’s history and a long way from the 34% of five years ago. 95% of students achieved 5 or more GCSE grades, up from 72% six years ago. Two years ago we were commended by the Specialist Schools Trust as being in the top 300 most improved schools in the country. Our improvement at GCSE has been matched by results in Year 9. The proportion of students achieving Level 5 or higher is now approaching 80%. This year, both mathematics and science were 8% ahead of the target set by the local authority. In the Sixth Form our numbers have grown and the performance over the last three years is deemed as highly satisfactory when we compare our results with the top performing schools and colleges.

The performance of the College is reflected in an increasing confidence in our work in our local community. In 2007, our Year 7 intake is 230, the highest in the College’s history.

A major plank in our improvement has been our Business and Enterprise status. This has added to the College’s firm sense of direction and an even stronger focus on improvement.

We are a community college with a rich programme of adult education. We work closely with the county’s youth service in supporting young people. Our specialist status allowed us to develop further our community work as well as enhance our links with local business. We have a strong programme of activities beyond the school day with music, sport and additional study activities playing major roles.

Our work with staff has been recognized by Investors in People, which we achieved in 2004. We were redesignated in 2007 with a glowing report.

We are proud of our successes as a College and we are determined to build on these successes as we continue to grow from our present 1200 students to 1400 in five years’ time. We hope you enjoy our website and welcome any feedback.

Ian Gartshore, Principal

News from the College:

Monday 12th of May

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Job Vacancies:

- Teacher of Technology

- Teacher of Geography

- Teacher of English

- Teacher of Science KS4

- Teacher for KS3 Inclusion Manager

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