High Storrs School

High Storrs School
Motto Designed for success
Established 1933
Type Community school
Headteacher Claire Tasker
Location High Storrs Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S11 7LH
England
53°21′27″N 1°31′21″W / 53.3576°N 1.5224°W / 53.3576; -1.5224Coordinates: 53°21′27″N 1°31′21″W / 53.3576°N 1.5224°W / 53.3576; -1.5224
Local authority City of Sheffield
DfE URN 107139 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 1575
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Houses Crucible, Lyceum, Merlin, Montgomery
Colours Red, yellow, blue, green
Former name High Storrs Grammar School
Website High Storrs

High Storrs is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form college on the south-western outskirts of Sheffield, England.

Admissions

High Storrs has a Sixth Form in Ecclesall and is a specialist Arts College in the Performing Arts, with a second specialism in Maths and Computing.

History

Central Technical School

The school opened on 10 March 1880 as the Central Higher Grade School in the centre of Sheffield and relocated to its present site at High Storrs in 1933. The Old Centralians was an association for former pupils that operated until 2015.[1]

Grammar school

The building housed two separate grammar schools from the 1940s to 1968: High Storrs Grammar School for Boys, and High Storrs Grammar School for Girls. It was administered by the Sheffield Education Committee. The buildings were improved in the early 1960s.

Comprehensive

These were merged into a single comprehensive school, starting in September 1969 with around 1,600 boys and girls.

In 1993 a 17-year-old pupil was killed by a wound form a bayonet by a pupil of Notre Dame High School in Endcliffe Park.[2]

Houses

In 2008 the "Key Stage" system was changed to the Vertical System, where instead of year groups, there are houses with ten forms to each house. Each form has 6 Y7s, 6 Y8s, 6 Y9s, 6 Y10s, 6 Y11s and no sixth formers. There are 2 classes of around 30 in each house, so 8 classes. Forms 1–5 are a class and forms 6–10 are a class. This system is meant to reduce bullying and encourage friendships with pupils of different ages. The four houses are named after the main four theatres in Sheffield: Crucible, Lyceum, Merlin and Montgomery. Sixth form students are also attached to a vertical form for organisational and mentoring purposes; typically three sixth formers are attached to one form.

House House Colour
Crucible Red
Lyceum Yellow
Merlin Blue
Montgomery Green

Exam pass rate

In 2008 63% of pupils who took GCSE exams achieved the standard of 5 A*–C grades, including Maths and English.[3] This is above both the Local Authority average of 40.8% and the national average of 47.6%.[3]

The average points score for AS and A2 Level students was 675.8, below the national average of 739.8.[4]

It gets above-average GCSE results and A-levels at the England average.

Sixth form

From September 2009, the school was going to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma however the new headteacher Ian Gage scrapped the idea and the school no longer offers the IB,[5] becoming the first comprehensive in Sheffield to do so.

School renovation

Almost £27 million was allocated for a complete refurbishment and remodelling of the school under the Government's Building Schools for the Future programme, with £2 million being spent on ICT equipment. Preparatory work on the field ready for the new temporary teaching rooms began in July 2008. Demolition of the 1960s extensions to the north of the school was completed in November 2008, and the project was completed in 2011.

Due to the school's Grade II listed status, only the interior of the main school building can be refurbished, with the exterior remaining almost unchanged. A new extension was built at the north end of the building to replace the old dining rooms, school hall and performing arts block, whilst a second extension will be built at a later date to replace the 1960s additions at the south end of the school.

Former teachers

Notable former pupils

High Storrs Grammar School for Girls

High Storrs Grammar School for Boys

References

  1. ↑ Old Centralians website, History page
  2. ↑ School violence
  3. 1 2 BBC News GCSE League Tables 2008
  4. ↑ BBC News A Level League Tables 2008
  5. ↑ Provider 16–19 Course Details. Retrieved 13 May 2009
  6. ↑ Ms Tessa Bramley Authorised Biography | Debrett's People of Today
  7. ↑ Times Educational Supplement, accessed 25 March 2009
  8. ↑ The Very Reverend Alfred Jowett – Telegraph
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