Dearne High School

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Dearne High is a Specialist Humanities College is a non-denominational, mixed sex, secondary school in the Dearne Valley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The school was previously known as Dearneside Secondary Modern and then Dearneside Comprehensive School until its merger with Thurnscoe Comprehensive School to create The Dearne High School. It recently received specialist humanities status making it The Dearne High a Specialist Humanities College.

It caters mainly for pupils from the Goldthorpe, Thurnscoe and Bolton-on-Dearne areas of Barnsley. It currently has around 1300 pupils aged 11-16 years.But will soon be changed to an 11-18 years school due to new laws coming out in 2010.