Bramhall High School

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Bramhall High School, is a comprehensive high school in the English city of Stockport, Cheshire. It is an 11-16 school with around 1500 pupils. It has recently been suggested that a sixth form may be reintroduced (there was one previously) to the school, intended to serve as an academic alternative to Aquinas College, Stockport^{[citation needed]}.

The school has the leading GCSE pass rate for a comprehensive school in the Stockport LEA area [1].

The school came under the spotlight in 2002, when they asked parents of pupils to pay £10 a month in the form of a direct debit to help with finances lost, as a result of poor funding in the Stockport Education Authority under the Labour government (see: BBC News: School asks parents for £10 a month). It was later discovered that the funding shortfall was partially due to a miscalculation by a council accountant.

The school also came under criticism when it hit the news, after it installed unisex toilets within its building. However now that they have been installed for several years, no adverse signs have been noted, proving that there is nothing wrong with having unisex toilets in schools. In previous years, the school has also been the focus of controversial news headlines after it introduced sniffer dogs to search the school premises for traces of illegal drugs.