Rainhill High School

Rainhill High School
Motto Reach For the Sky @ Rainhill High
Type Foundation school
Headteacher J. Pout
Location Warrington Road
Rainhill
Prescot
Merseyside
L35 6NY
53°24′29″N 2°45′03″W / 53.407934°N 2.750831°W / 53.407934; -2.750831Coordinates: 53°24′29″N 2°45′03″W / 53.407934°N 2.750831°W / 53.407934; -2.750831
Local authority St Helens
DfE URN 104830 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Colours         
Website Rainhill High School

Rainhill High School is a purpose built 11-18 comprehensive secondary school in Rainhill, Merseyside, England. The school is the official Liverpool F.C. Academy Education Centre in Merseyside for under-18 players to be educated.[1] Notable former pupils from the academy include Raheem Sterling and Jordon Ibe.[2] It is also a Trust School in partnership with the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and St Helens College.[3]

History

Rainhill High School has its origins in the former separate Whiston County Secondary Schools for Boys and Girls which used to occupy a site in Portico Lane. These two well respected schools, which eventually merged on the 'old site' to form a co-educational comprehensive school with a sixth form, served several generations of pupils, many of whom now send their children to Rainhill High.[4]

Faced with falling rolls, Knowsley found the school surplus to requirements and St Helens, which did not have enough secondary school places, leased the whole school from Knowsley for five years. On completion of the transfer the school was renamed "Rainhill High School". This unique leasing arrangement provided a stop-gap answer to the problem which St Helens faced but it was obvious that the long term solution lay in building a new school to serve the families of Rainhill and neighbouring areas.[5]

The 'new school' was built between 1980 and 1987 on land formerly owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese. The 'new' Rainhill High School can truly be described as a purpose-built comprehensive school.[6]

Present day

A high proportion of Year 11 students continue in education. Although there is a trend for pupils who wish to take 'A' levels to opt to stay at the school at 16 and pursue their studies at Rainhill High Sixth Form.

Every year many pupils secure places on the university courses of their choice, usually at Liverpool and Manchester universities, but often further afield and occasionally at Oxford and Cambridge. Many achieve training places with major companies or progress to courses in further education.[7]

On March 28th and 30th 2017 the NASUWT teachers union began 14 days of discontinuous strike action. NASUWT representatives said the strike action was due to "unacceptable management practices by the employer toward teachers taking part in an ongoing national dispute over excessive workload". They added that management had "failed to attend meetings" to discuss the "intimidation being experienced by staff taking part in action short of strike action at the school". [8]

Academic performance

As of 2014, up to 65% of students from this school have achieved A* GCSE grades.[9]

References

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