Trevelyan School
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Trevelyan Middle School is a comprehensive
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...

 middle school
Middle school
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 in Windsor
Windsor, Berkshire
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, Berkshire
Berkshire
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, England
England
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, within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
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 Local Authority. The school is attended by approximately 600 boys and girls aged between nine and thirteen.

History

The school was officially opened on 26 March 1930 as the New Windsor Council School by Sir Charles Trevelyan
Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet
Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet PC , the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, was a British Liberal, and later Labour, politician and landowner...

, the President of the Board of Education. It was renamed Trevelyan School in his honour in 1954.

Since 1979, it has been a co-educational comprehensive middle school, catering for pupils between the ages of nine and thirteen.

In 1998, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead assumed responsibility for the school from the former Royal County of Berkshire Council
Berkshire
Berkshire is a historic county in the South of England. It is also often referred to as the Royal County of Berkshire because of the presence of the royal residence of Windsor Castle in the county; this usage, which dates to the 19th century at least, was recognised by the Queen in 1957, and...

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In 2002 the school moved from its Green Lane home for the previous 72 years to a new site in Wood Close.

In 2007, Trevelyan Middle School became an associate Arts College
Arts College
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, linked to The Windsor Boys' School
The Windsor Boys' School
The Windsor Boys' School is an all-boys secondary school on Maidenhead Road in Windsor, Berkshire, within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Local Authority.-Admissions:...

.

Classes and Houses

Trevelyan Middle School has nineteen classes of students, arranged in four year groups of four or five classes each. Year 5 is the youngest year group in the school, and year 8 the eldest. Students belong to one of the school's four houses
House system
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:
  • Lancaster
  • Stuart
  • Tudor
  • York

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