| Motto | Veritas (Truth) |
|---|---|
| Established | September 1961 |
| Type | Voluntary aided school |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Headteacher | Miss Elizabeth Cox |
| Specialism | Languages |
| Location | Tongue Lane Leeds West Yorkshire LS6 4QE England |
| Local authority | City of Leeds |
| DfE number | ???/4751 |
| DfE URN | 108095 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 908 |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Diocese | Leeds |
| Website | CHHS |
Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a comprehensive school located in Meanwood, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The school is one of the best comprehensive performing schools in Yorkshire with, in 2010 over 85% of pupils achieving 5 A*-C grades at GCSE level. The school has had no sixth form since September 2000 when the new buildings were created. It under-went an OFSTED inspection in October 2011.
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Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School is a part of the Diocese of Leeds and has been praised many times for outstanding results. It is named in honour of Cardinal John Carmel Heenan, a former Bishop of Leeds, Archbishop of Liverpool and Cardinal of Westminster.
It is situated just south of the A6120 Leeds Outer Ring Road.
The school was formerly the St Thomas Aquinas Boys' Grammar School on Tongue Lane. It was built in 1961 as a three-form entry school by the City of Leeds Education Committee. The Saint John Bosco school was next door and had 600 boys and girls, and was also built in 1961.
A coeducational comprehensive 13-18 school was established in September 1978, when two adjoining schools, Saint John Bosco RC Secondary Modern School and the grammar school were merged to create Cardinal Heenan High School, as it was then known (the word 'Catholic' was added at a later date.). It had 1,200 boys and girls and around 150 in the sixth form.
In September 2000, the school moved into new PFI premises; the old buildings were demolished, although the structural 'skeleton' of the former Science block was incorporated in the new premises of St Urban's Primary School.
In 2004, the school achieved the status of Language College; it had previously been granted the status of Beacon School, a government funded programme which was phased out in August 2005.