| Motto | Lux et Robur "Light and Strength" |
|---|---|
| Established | 20th century |
| Type | Comprehensive |
| Headteacher | Mr Steve McMahon |
| Specialism | Sports College |
| Location | Park Road South Birkenhead WIRRAL CH43 4UY England |
| Local authority | Metropolitan Borough of Wirral |
| DfE URN | 105096 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1033 |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Houses | Beech, Cedar, Maple, Oak, Rowan |
| Website | www.parkhigh.wirral.sch.uk |
Park High School is a co-educational secondary school in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The school is located near Birkenhead Park. Previously existing across two sites, following the amalgamation of two separate schools, it consists of an Upper School and a Lower School (although only one site is currently used), and is a specialist Sports College administered by the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.
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The school consists of four floors with up to thirty rooms on the first three floors, with the top floor only having three rooms. The school also has a glass walled canteen and a sports hall which its height extending three floor. The school is built on a hill with the first floor extending underground. The theatre on the third floor has Tudor style decoration around its curtains. Some of the older areas have been sealed off for health and safety reasons.
Park High has substantial sports facilities; such as a new climbing wall in the gym, a fitness suite, a large sports hall and a dance studio along with basketball courts and has recently set up basketball nets in the schoolyard, among other things.
Currently at Park High School, there are roughly over 70 teachers. Within those teachers there are 50 form tutors, 3 reception, 1 librarian, 5 deputy headteachers and 1 secretary. The other teachers are Learning Mentors and Connexions.
Since being granted specialist Sports College status in 2001, Park High received positive comments from Ofsted on their last inspection. As well as this, it has attained a significant level of good GCSE results, ranking within England's top 10%.
Park High School for Girls opened in Park Road South in 1926 and Park High School for Boys was established in 1925 at a site on Park Road North (which is now the Joseph Paxton Building). Both schools were amalgamated in 1972, with Park High School becoming an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive school. Following the establishment of Birkenhead Sixth Form College in 1988, the upper age of students is now 16.
In June 2001, work began to bring the school onto one site. An extensive building programme involved demolishing the boys gym, the caretakers house, the old canteen and fourteen mobile classrooms. This allowed for the construction of a new circular canteen, large sports hall and dance studio, as well as building extensions to older parts of the main building. When the new school year began in September 2003, Park High School was opened on one site for the first time.[1]