Parkside Community College

Parkside Community College is a secondary academy school with 600 places for children aged 11–16, situated in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

From 1960 to 1974 it was the Cambridge Grammar School for Girls, after which it became the co-educational comprehensive Parkside Community College.

Its work as a specialist media arts college has been documented in a number of research studies by staff at the school.

On 1 December 2008, the Nova 9 helium balloon took two space-suited teddies close to the edge of space from the grounds of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Parkside Community College achieves GCSE results that are consistently among the best for state schools in Cambridgeshire.

Teddies in Space – taken in near space at 30,000m (19 miles – the edge of space is 66 miles): a project with Cambridge University Spaceflight
Parkside looking towards the swimming pool - geograph.org.uk