Education
Coombeshead Academy is a comprehensive school, located on Coombeshead Road. The school is a Trust School and a specialist media and arts college. The school educates around 1442 students, aged between 11 to 18.
Newton Abbot College is a comprehensive school, located on Old Exeter Road, that was established on 1 September 2008 by the renaming of Knowles Hill School. The school, a specialist Technology College, educates around 1,200 pupils, aged 11 to18.
Primary schools include Decoy Primary School which has around 445 pupils and has been awarded the Becta ICT Mark, Eco and Healthy School awards, the Devon Active Schools award and a platinum award for its travel plan.
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“There are words in that letter to his wife, respecting the education of his daughters, which deserve to be framed and hung over every mantelpiece in the land. Compare this earnest wisdom with that of Poor Richard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, its probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)