Burleigh Community College

Burleigh Community College is a specialist Sports College located on Thorpe Hill in Loughborough. It has been known to place an overwhelming importance on basketball. Burleigh Community College is nearly three hundred years old. The origins can be traced to the will of Bartholemew Hickling, a leading citizen of Loughborough, who in 1683 provided an endowment for a girls’ school – to match the existing grammar school for boys. The Hickling School for Girls opened in 1690 and lasted till 1876 when, with pressures of industrialisation, it became the Hickling Boys’ School. In 1917 it underwent a further change becoming a Junior Technical College under the control of the remarkable Dr Schofield’s Loughborough Technical Institute (or the...