The Whitby High School is a co-educational secondary foundation school,The Whitby High School, A Specialist Technology College situated in Whitby, a suburb of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.
Admissions It is maintained by the Cheshire West and Chester Local Education Authority. The school educates pupils from 11–18 as it has a Sixth Form. It is situated on the A5032 Chester Road in the area known as Whitby near Great Sutton.
History Grammar school The Whitby High School was founded as a coeducational school until a girls' school was built next door in 1963. The new school became Ellesmere Port County Grammar School for Boys, being situated on Chester Road and had around 950 boys. In 1974, the boys' school was one of the first in the country to use a new computer program to help choose careers options.
Girls' school The girls' school was called Ellesmere Port Girls' Grammar School and was on Sycamore Drive. It had 850 girls, with 150 in the Sixth Form.
Comprehensive Cheshire agreed to go comprehensive, in principle, in 1966. It became a co-educational comprehensive in 1973, being known as Whitby County Comprehensive School, then Whitby Comprehensive School.Royden, M.W. A History of The Whitby High School 1959–2009 (2009)
Academic performance GCSE results 2011 are 3rd highest in the region with 89% 5 A*-C, while A level result are above the normal of the area. Now the GCSE results have been raised again as last year 11, got 92% 5 A*-C.
Notable former students
Dave Challinor, footballer Gideon Davies FRS FRSC FMedSci structural and chemical biologist working on structural biology, carbohydrates and glycobiology Rob Jones, footballer Mark Leckey, artist, won the 2008 Turner Prize Jane Parry, Olympic athlete in 4x400 metres relay
Ellesmere Port County Grammar School (both sections) John Basnett, rugby league player Karl J. Friston FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, is a British neuroscientist at University College London and an authority on brain imaging Beverley Hughes, Baroness Hughes of Stretford Paul Jones, footballer Kevin Kennerley, footballer Roger Allen Leigh, Head of the School of Agriculture since 2006 at the University of Adelaide; Professor of Botany from 1998 to 2006 at the University of Cambridge; President from 2005–7 of the Society for Experimental Biology Rick Parry Barry Siddall, footballer Neil Whatmore, footballer Mick Wright, footballer
References
External links The Whitby High School – A Specialist Technology College
The Whitby High School Prospectus
The Whitby High School - Official Website