John O'Gaunt Community Technology College is a comprehensive and Technology College of approximately 633 pupils in Hungerford, Berkshire, England. It was Berkshire's first community school. The school was built in 1962 and is a fusion of 1960s decor and 1990s pre-fabricated buildings. Pupils between the ages of 11–16 years old can enroll with the secondary school, and those that are 16-18 can apply to join the sixth form. The school also offers extracurricular activities mainly sports and arts events. Students can also apply for a course at Newbury College, in which case students are taken by bus on a Wednesday (year 10/11) or Friday (year 12/13).
The school's Technology College status benefits the whole school in that almost all classrooms are equipped with an interactive white-board and multimedia capabilities.
The school gained national attention as the site of the denouement of the Hungerford massacre on 19 August 1987. Michael Robert Ryan made the then-empty school the site of his final stand and suicide, having killed 16 people and injured 15 others.
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