Buile Hill High School

Buile Hill High School Visual Arts College
Established 1973
Headteacher W. O'Neill
Specialism Arts
Location Eccles Old Road
Pendleton, Salford
M6 8RD
England
Local authority Salford
DfE URN 105974
Ofsted Reports
Ages 11–16
Website www.builehillschool.co.uk

Buile Hill High School is an educational secondary school, in Salford, in the north-west of England on the A576 Eccles Old Road.

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History

The school is over 100 years old in some parts, with the school itself owning a playing field with a nearby college, Pendleton College, which is across the field to the north. It was formerly Salford Grammar School until 1973, when its sixth form along with Pendleton High School for Girls was moved to Pendleton College, which is next door. The building had opened on 12 January 1956, being officially opened on 21 March 1956 by the Mayor of Salford, G. H. Goulden.

Admissions

The school has a strong arts and drama department and received an Artsmark Gold Award in May 2006. It is one of the few schools in the area with a fully working theatre and performance space.

The school was rebuilt on the adjacent field and completed in 2008. The new buildings were funded through the Private Finance Initiative.

Academic performance

GCSE figure for 2007 show a marked rise from 26% of students gaining 5 A* to C the previous year, to 52% in 2007. Coupled with rise there has been significant success in its Key Stage 3 performance for this Year. The school's contextual value added now stands at 999 - 1000 being the country's national average.

The school underwent an OFSTED inspection in October 2007 which described the school as satisfactory overall with elements of good.[1]

It got very low GCSE results in 2008, well under the Government's minimum for comprehensives.

Headteacher controversy

The school's headteacher left the school in the summer of 2006 and was replaced by a 'super head'. The new headteacher, Mr. P. Fitzpatrick, was paid a larger-than-usual salary of £100,000 per year, and was contracted for two years to improve the school's results and ready the school for the move into its new buildings in 2008. However, the 'super head' failed to achieve the results that the council had been looking for, and in 2007 he was removed by "mutual agreement" after just two terms.[2] In 2007 the school's results on the standard measure (% of pupils reaching 5 GCSEs at grades A*-C) jumped from 26% to 52%.[3] He was replaced by Mrs W. O'Neill, previously the deputy head of Albion High School, Salford

Notable past pupils

Salford Grammar School

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