Holmfirth High School
Holmfirth High School is a coeducational secondary school located on Heys Road in Thongsbridge, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England. Holmfirth High School opened in 1959 and currently has over 1,300 pupils, split over five-year groups from years 7 to 11, covering the age range of 11 to 16 years. The current head is Mr Ben Stitchman, who was appointed in September 2018. Based on the initial inspection by Ofsted in 2001 the school is situated in Holmfirth, a small town south of Huddersfield, on a pleasant rural site, in an area containing a mixture of types of housing and a wide socio-economic mix. The school takes pupils from a wide area. Pupils transfer from approximately nine primary schools, many travelling several miles. At that time, more than 99.5 per cent of pupils were white with only three pupils with English as an additional language but none is in the early stage of learning English. About nine per cent of pupils were entitled to free school meals, a figure that is be ...
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Community School (England And Wales)
A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate. The formal use of this name to describe a school derives from the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.School Standards and Framework Act 1998
Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Board School

In the mid-19th century, government involvement in schooling consisted of annual grants to the