Swavesey Village College is a village college

Village College

The village college is an institution specific to Cambridgeshire, England . It caters for the education of 11 to 16 year olds during the day,...

 in the village of Swavesey

Swavesey

Swavesey is a village lying on the Greenwich Meridian in Cambridgeshire, England, with an approximate population of 2,480. The village is situated 9 miles to the north west of Cambridge and 3 miles south east of St...

 in south Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

. As of 2010 the school has around 1,200 students. The school was officially opened on 14 November 1958. As of 2010 the principal is Martin Bacon.

The school is divided into five "houses", all named after influential people in history:

• Brunel - House colour is red
• Orwell - House colour is blue
• Newton - House colour is green
• Wilberforce - House colour is Purple
• Cavendish - House colour is debatable. Usually a paler purple or blue.

The school has an intake from many surrounding villages including Bar Hill

Bar Hill

Bar Hill is a purpose-built village with a population of 4,000 about 4 miles northwest of Cambridge, England on the A14 road.The Prime Meridian passes just to the west of Bar Hill.-History:...

, Over

Over, Cambridgeshire

Over is a large village near the River Great Ouse in the English county of Cambridgeshire, just east of the Prime Meridian.The parish covers an area of approximately...

, Longstanton

Longstanton

Longstanton is a village in South Cambridgeshire, England, 6 miles northwest of Cambridge city centre.-History:For most of its history Longstanton was split into two parishes: the larger Long Stanton All Saints to the north and the smaller Long Stanton St. Michael to the south...

, Fenstanton

Fenstanton

Fenstanton – in Huntingdonshire , England – is a village near Hemingford Grey two miles south of St Ives lying on the south side of the River Ouse....

, Fen Drayton

Fen Drayton

Fen Drayton is a small village between Cambridge and St. Ives in Cambridgeshire, England, and between the villages of Fenstanton and Swavesey....

, Hilton

Hilton, Cambridgeshire

Hilton is a village in Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, England, about 11 miles northwest of Cambridge. The parish adjoins the parishes of Elsworth, Fenstanton, Hemingford Abbots, Hemingford Grey, Papworth Everard and Papworth St Agnes...

, Papworth Everard

Papworth Everard

Papworth Everard is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies ten miles west of Cambridge and six miles south of Huntingdon, having along its centre Ermine Street, the old North Road, the Roman highway that for centuries served as a major artery from London to York, which is now the A1198...

, Boxworth

Boxworth

Boxworth is a village in Cambridgeshire not far from the rapidly-expanding developments of Cambourne and Bar Hill. It is situated about 8 miles to the north-west of Cambridge. It is within the diocese of Ely. The village covers an area of 1,053 ha...

, Elsworth

Elsworth

Elsworth is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, 9 miles west of Cambridge. At the time of the 2001 census, the parish's population was 657.-History:...

, Lolworth

Lolworth

Lolworth is a small village and civil parish in the district of South Cambridgeshire, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England, located approximately northwest of Cambridge city centre...

 and Willingham

Willingham

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On 11 June 2008, Swavesey Village College became a foundation school

Foundation school

In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in community schools....

 within the Swavesey Village College Educational Trust. The school is also a Specialist Science College and a Specialist Modern Foreign Languages College.

On 1 April 2011, Swavesey Village College became an academy.