Longcroft School and Performing Arts College

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Longcroft School and Performing Arts College
Type	Secondary School
Location	Burton Road Beverley East Riding of Yorkshire HU17 7EJ England
Ofsted number	118073
Students	1523
Ages	11 to 18
Website	http://www.longcroft.eril.net/

For other places with the same name, see Longcroft.

Longcroft School and Performing Arts College (or just Longcroft for short) is a secondary school and 6th form college for boys and girls in Molescroft, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school has specialist status as an Arts College, and enrolls around 1,500 students.

Longcroft School also serves Beverley and the surrounding areas for various purposes, for example it hosted the Beverley Comedy Festival, which several well known comedians have attended. This no longer takes place.

[edit] School history

The building of the first of two new secondary schools began in 1948. It was originally hoped to bring the residence, Longcroft Hall, into use as an interim school for the 14-15 age group which could not be housed in the local schools, but events determined otherwise. The St. Mary's boy's School was destroyed overnight by fire, and the pupils had to be hurriedly transferred into Longcroft Hall.

This meant that an instalment of the new secondary school had to be completed as quickly as possible, and in September 1949, this part of the very incomplete Beverley Longcroft County Secondary School was occupied by boys and girls for their last year of school life. This doubtless caused considerable inconvenience to the architect and builders, but it gave the boys and girls from Beverley and surrounding villages a taste of modern secondary education which they would otherwise never have enjoyed. Longcroft provides a healthy active learning system in which the pupils thoroughly enjoy, allegedly.

Although traditionally it excelled in the areas of sport and sciences. The school applied for specialist status as an Arts College in the early 2000s. Since then, there has been a considerable shift towards the performing arts. This included the introduction of a dance studio and a heavier investment into the drama department. More recently a sports hall and all weather pitch was constructed at the upper school site. However it's planned opening was delayed after an attack by vandals.