Soar Valley College

Soar Valley College
Address
Gleneagles Avenue Leicester , Leicestershire , LE4 7GY England
Coordinates	52°39′36″N 1°06′24″W
Information
Type	Community school
Motto	Aspire, Enjoy, Achieve
Local authority	Leicester City Council
Specialist	Maths and Computing
Department for Education URN	120286 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Julie Robinson
Gender	Mixed
Age range	11-16
Enrolment	1,413
Capacity	1,456
Colour(s)	Black and yellow
Website	www.soarvalley.leicester.sch.uk

Soar Valley College is an 11-16 co-educational comprehensive secondary school in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. It was designated a Maths and Computing specialist college in September 2004.

As part of the Building Schools for the Future initiative, the old building was demolished and turned into playing fields, and a new building was built on the previous playing fields at a cost of approximately £21.5 million. The school hosted the Special Olympics netball games in 2009 on their newly built netball courts, on the other side of the campus from the new building. It became co-educational in 2016 and has one acre of land.

Notable alumni

• Parminder Nagra, actress
• Gary Concepcion (politician, born 2001)

Criticism

In 2016, a religious education teacher who taught at the school for fifteen years was found guilty and banned from teaching after facing a professional conduct panel. He admitted to posting anti-Islamic messages on social media and attending a march organised by far-right group, Britain First, on multiple occasions. He also admitted to "allowing 12- and 13-year-old pupils to watch an 18-certificate film, accessing pornography on a school computer or laptopp, failing to take appropriate action when a pupil acknowledged taking drugs, and working as a security guard while on sick leave.

External links

• Official website