Applemore Technology College is a secondary school in Hampshire, UK, situated near the small village of Dibden Purlieu very near to the New Forest. It offers education to students between the ages of 11 and 16 and has had specialist subject status for the teaching of Technology. The college's slogan is "going forward together." The number of students on roll has dropped in the last few years from 854 in 2001 down to 600 in 2008. The college was built in 1969 as a comprehensive co-educational school. It became one of the first Technology Colleges in 1994. In the mid nineties, the college suffered an arson attack that destroyed the interior of the "New Block" which housed the arts and languages departments. Temporary buildings were erected to house these departments before the building was repaired the following year, and the college is currently undergoing a massive investment in its buildings. In the report of the Ofsted Inspection carried out on 12–13 October 2005, the school was rated as inadequate, although the teaching was rated as good.. Frank Callaghan was succeeded by Matthew Longden as Headteacher in September 2005.