Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College
In 1898 the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur came to Leeds and to the two-classroom parish school of St Anne's situated behind it.In 1904 the main part of what is now the Sixth Form College was built and opened as Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls from the age of eleven to fourteen.[citation needed] Notre Dame was one of three catholic direct grant grammar schools in Leeds, and the second that was all-female from 1946.The school was handed over to the diocese in the 1970s when the Sisters of Notre Dame changed their focus to education in developing countries.This was one of a network of girls' secondary schools in England and Scotland which belonged to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.