Editing Torquay (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Torbay}}
Torquay has a number of primary schools, including St Margaret's Primary School in St Marychurch which has around 329 pupils and is situated on a large site of over {{convert|1,800|sqm}} which was formerly a farm.<ref>{{cite web |title=School Prospectus |publisher=St Margarets Primary School |pages=18 |url=http://www.stmargaretstorbay.co.uk/cms/news/downloaddoc.asp?DocRef=1&DocCount=357&MediaFolder=keyinfo&DocFile=prospectus.pdf }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no}}</ref>

There are five main secondary schools in the town. [[Torquay Academy]], previously known as Torquay Community School and Audley Park, has had its troubles in the past but since 2001 has come out of [[Ofsted]] [[special measures]]. The school has had a £26million pound rebuild and, in December 2010 when reassessed by Ofsted, it was told that it had become "a good and improving school". It changed to academy status in September 2001, sponsored by Torquay Boys' Grammar School.

[[The Spires College]] (formerly Westlands School) is a combined secondary college and sixth form that takes students of all variations and in 2002 moved to a new building. [[St Cuthbert Mayne School]] is a joint [[Roman Catholic]] and [[Church of England]] secondary school and sixth form.

Torquay's other two state secondary schools are selective. They are [[Torquay Boys' Grammar School]] and [[Torquay Grammar School for Girls]] which are available only to those that pass the [[Eleven plus exam]] and the schools' own standardised test. There are also a number of private schools in the area including the Abbey School.

For further education, students can either go to one of the sixth forms at the previously mentioned The Spires, St Cuthbert's Mayne or Grammar schools, or they can go to [[South Devon College]] which is based in Long Road in Paignton on a new campus that fully opened in January 2006.