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started a consultation period on falling rolls; student numbers declined to under 200 pupils by early 2014 because of uncertainty over the college's future, and the council voted in
February 2014 to close the school. The closure took effect from 31 August 2014. Demolition of the school buildings
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that it was a winning school for the BBC/British
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basketball courts as well as approximately 20 hectares of sports fields making it one of the largest school sites in County Durham.
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In the mid-1970s, there were several fires at the school, mentioned in
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in Piaui, in the North-East of Brazil, which was the high school of
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The school opened as Pelton
Roseberry Secondary Modern in 1963.
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