Notley High School is situated in Braintree

Braintree, Essex

Braintree is a town of about 42,000 people and the principal settlement of the Braintree district of Essex in the East of England. It is northeast of Chelmsford and west of Colchester on the River Blackwater, A120 road and a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line.Braintree has grown contiguous...

 in Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

, England

England

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. It is for 11–16 year olds. There is currently a lack of places available to children who live outside of the catchment area

Catchment area (human geography)

In human geography, a catchment area is the area and population from which a city or individual service attracts visitors or customers. For example, a school catchment area is the geographic area from which students are eligible to attend a local school...

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The Notley High School is a Technology College and has IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 facilities.
The school was built in the early 1970s but has recently had an extension to accommodate new classrooms and amenities. The school was inspected by OFSTED

Ofsted

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 in March 2009 and graded as outstanding.

Notley High School is the lead partner in the Braintree Sixth Form

Braintree Sixth Form

Braintree Sixth Form is a school Sixth Form centre for educating 16-18 year olds in Braintree, Essex, England. It is located approximately 15 miles east of Stansted Airport in north Essex....

 which is a new purpose built post 16 provision for the young people of Braintree. It opened in September 2009 admitting students from Notley High School and other local schools.

Notable among its alumni are X Factor

The X Factor (UK series 6)

The sixth series of British television music competition The X Factor started on ITV on 22 August 2009 and was won by Joe McElderry on 13 December 2009. Cheryl Cole emerged as the winning mentor for the second consecutive year, the first time in the show's history that a mentor has won back-to-back...

 finalist Olly Murs

Olly Murs

Oliver Stanley "Olly" Murs is an English singer-songwriter and TV presenter. Murs rose to fame after being the runner-up on the sixth series of The X Factor...

, reality TV celebrity and professional dancer Louie Spence

Louie Spence

Louie Spence is a dance expert, choreographer and television personality who is currently the artistic director at the London Pineapple Dance Studios...

and Rees Warren - Volleyball England Player, Coach & British Line Judge.