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just one building (with capacity for around 500 pupils) on its opening, but by 2008 it had five classroom blocks (with capacity for well over 1,000 pupils) and also incorporated an arts and leisure complex. High Arcal's status changed from grammar to comprehensive in 1975, in the same year that
Ellowes Hall and Dormston switched from secondary modern to comprehensive.
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