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| John Ruskin College | |
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Selsdon Park Road (A2022) , , CR2 8JJ
United Kingdom
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| Coordinates | 51°21′04″N 0°02′35″W / 51.351°N 0.043°W / 51.351; -0.043 |
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| Type | Further education |
| Established | 1920-1988 – founding institutions 1988 – John Ruskin College 2019 – constituent college of Orbital South Colleges |
| Local authority | Croydon |
| Department for Education URN | 130434 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Lindsay Pamphilon |
| Age | 16++ |
| Enrolment | 1,800+ (2017)[1] |
| Website | www |
John Ruskin College is a further education college in South Croydon offering full-time vocational courses and apprenticeships as well as part-time courses for adults.
In 2019, following a merger with East Surrey College incorporating Reigate School of Art, John Ruskin College became part of Orbital South Colleges.
John Ruskin College is located on Selsdon Park Road (A2022), close to the A212 roundabout. The College is accessible by tram via Gravel Hill tram stop, as well as various local bus services.
John Ruskin College was a former school in the London Borough of Croydon, which started life in 1920 as the John Ruskin Boys' Central School. Its location was Scarbrook Road, Croydon. Named after John Ruskin, it opened on 12 January 1920. The Lady Edridge School, its sister school for girls (later to become a grammar school in 1951) opened the same day. Lady Edridge was wife of a Mayor of Croydon and the first "Lady Freeman" of the Borough. It closed in 1980 and was demolished.
In 1935 the school moved to Tamworth Road, and in April 1945 it was granted grammar school status as the John Ruskin Grammar School for Boys (JRGS). It had been previously the John Ruskin Selective Central School. It moved to Upper Shirley Road, Shirley, in 1955, and was retitled the John Ruskin High School in 1971 before later becoming a 14-18 Co-Educational Comprehensive School. It was demolished in 1991. The Upper Shirley Road site surrounded the Shirley Windmill, a 19th-century tower mill.[2] The upper forms transferred to Selsdon to form the present John Ruskin College, utilising the premises previously known as John Newnham Secondary Selective School, named after a 20th-century town clerk of the old County Borough of Croydon.
The current College was established in 1988 following re-organisation of post-16 studies in Croydon. It merged with East Surrey College in February 2019, creating Orbital South Colleges group.[3]
A range of Full-time vocational courses are available for students:
The college also provides a range of Apprenticeship programmes.
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