Harrogate High School

Harrogate High School
Established 1973
Type Comprehensive
Principal Mr Andrew Bayston
Specialism Sports College
Location Ainsty Road
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 4AP
England
Local authority North Yorkshire
Staff 85
Students 844
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Houses Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa
Email
Telephone
Fax
admin@harrogatehigh.co.uk
01423 548800
01423 549381
Website www.harrogatehigh.co.uk

Harrogate High School is a secondary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It has about 1,000 students on roll and approximately 85 full-time teaching staff. The school has been awarded specialist Sports College status.

History

The school was founded in 1973 as Harrogate Granby High School by the amalgamation of the previous Harrogate High School with Granby Park Secondary Modern School. Both schools had been founded in the 1960s, Granby Park by the amalgamation of New Park Secondary School and Starbeck Secondary School in 1964. Granby was dropped from the current school's name only in September 2005.

The new school took over the buildings and grounds of the neighbouring St. John Fisher Catholic High School (which had relocated to its current site in parkland on the south side of Harrogate), creating a 13 -hectare (32 acre) campus bounded by residential housing to the west, the Harrogate Line to the north, Kingsley Drive to the south, and Kingsley Road to the east. The first head of the new school was Mr. F. W. Kimber, previously head of the old Harrogate High School. At that time the school had over 2000 students on roll.

The school now has 844 students on roll. Its 2008 Ofsted Inspection Report found that the school is satisfactory with good capacity to improve. It also found that the extent to which learners make a positive contribution to the community, and adopt healthy lifestyles and safe practices, is good. In 2009, its pass rate for five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C was 99.3%. [1]. In 2010 the school was monitored by Ofsted who has deemed the school of making good progress in making improvements and good progress in demonstrating a better capacity for sustained improvement.

In December 2010 the renowned actor and gay rights champion Sir Ian McKellen visited Harrogate High School as part of his national campaign to tackle homophobic discrimination and bullying in Britain’s schools.

The school agreed to act as a pilot in support of North Yorkshire County Council’s work to raise awareness about discrimination against gay, lesbian and bisexual young people and homophobic bullying.

Harrogate Hockey Club, a club with a team in the National League of the English Hockey League (EHL) have a clubhouse and artificial pitch located within the boundaries of the school.

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