Thirsk School
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Thirsk School is a secondary school located in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, UK. Its headmaster is Mr. Christopher Lewis. Fully comprehensive and a specialist school in Maths and ICT, it has students from Thirsk, the surrounding area, and Ripon, where students use it as a third alternative between Ripon Grammer School and the much derided Ripon College. The school also has an in-house sixth form of approximately 180 students, which concentrates on academic (rather than vocational) courses, such as A-Levels and such NVQs as are possible. The head of Sixth Form is Mr. Mark Dickson. Considered a "very good school" by both Ofsted and in the area generally, it is credited with significant GCSE and A-Level success rates, with many students eventually finding good places at universities, including Oxford and Cambridge