Education
The secondary schools in Melton are Long Field School and John Ferneley College, which take students aged 11 to 16, and the MV16 Centre (Melton Vale Post 16 Centre) for Sixth Formers. The town has several primary schools - Brownlow, Grove, St Francis, St Mary's, Sherard and Swallowdale - while the Birchwood Special School caters for young people of primary and secondary school age. Melton's largest school used to be the King Edward VII which at one time had around 2,000 pupils aged between 11 and 19. It was founded as a Grammar School in 1910, became comprehensive in the late 1960s and closed recently after reaching its centenary. Brooksby Melton College which provides vocational, further and higher education in a wide range of subjects has a campus on Asfordby Road in Melton plus a smaller annexe on King Street. These facilities complement those on the college's Brooksby campus six miles out of the town.
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