The Ridings School

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The Ridings is a secondary school for ages 11-18 in Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, overseen by the Calderdale local authority. It was created in 1995 when two local secondary modern schools merged. The school is relativley small for its type; as of 2007 it had 537 students, of whom 28 were in the sixth form. [1]

In 1996 the school received nationwide attention [2] when staff said 60 of its pupils were "unteachable" and school operations were temporarily suspended while the headmaster and other leading staff were replaced. The school subsequently enjoyed greatly improved GCSE examination results [3], however its 2005 Ofsted report regarded it as "inadequate" (one grade above "failing")overall, although "well placed to move forward". [4]

On 29 October 2007, Calderdale Council announced that the school would be closed down.[5]

[edit] References

• 2007 Oftsted report
• 'Worst school's' GCSE joy (BBC report, 21 August, 2003)
• Ridings School 'inadequate' again (BBC report, 20 November 2005)