Newton Abbot College is an academy school in Newton Abbot, Devon, [England. The College was established on 1 September 2008 by the renaming of Knowles Hill School. The principal is Gareth Davies, who took over in September 2007.
The college has 1,200 students, aged 11–18, with the top two years comprising the sixth form. It is also a specialist Technology College.
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