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, 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

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. It is a specialist

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. It is situated on the A5032 ''Chester Road''. The area known as

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is further north along the road, and nearer to Ellesmere Port Catholic High School and Whitby Hall.

Local news

The school has received many news reports largely based around the success of the students. The school recently hit the headlines when it was voted Sports Secondary School of the Year for the whole Cheshire region. In 2018, Whitby High School received 7075 GBP from Cheshire Community Foundation to engage learners in Hungerball. The project had a dual purpose of promoting informal exercise of the school population plus focused work with groups of vulnerable learners. The grant paid for equipment and venue hire, and staff time.

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.

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 an astounding 92% 5 A*-C.

Notable former pupils

* Philip Boyle, Ambassador to Mali from 2012 to 2014 and Ambassador to Madagascar from 2017 * Dave Challinor, footballer *

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* Oz James Osborne, Blacksmith * Craig Sadler, Ancient Historian *

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, carbohydrates and

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* Rob Jones, footballer * Mark Leckey, artist, won the 2008 Turner Prize * Jayne McCubbin, BBC North West political reporter * Jane Parry, Olympic athlete in 4x400 metres relay * Corporal Marc Taylor, of

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, killed on 28 September 2004 at Basrah in

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Ellesmere Port County Grammar School (both sections)

* John Basnett, rugby league player * Colin Farrington, Director General from 1998 to 2010 of the

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* Dennis Farrington, President of the Board at SEE University since 2008; Council of Europe expert on higher education reform * Karl J. Friston FRS, FMedSci, FRSB, is a British

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and an authority on

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, MP * Paul Jones, footballer *

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, footballer * Roger Allen Leigh, Head of the School of Agriculture since 2006 at the

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; Professor of Botany from 1998 to 2006 at the

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, footballer * Neil Whatmore, footballer * Mick Wright, footballer

References

External links

The Whitby High School – A Specialist Technology College

EduBase

The Whitby High School Prospectus
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