Birchwood High School

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Birchwood High School
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Address
Birchwood High School
Parsonage Lane

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CM23 5BD

Coordinates 51°52′27″N0°11′02″E / 51.8743°N 0.1839°E / 51.8743; 0.1839
Information
Type Academy
Mottoyour dreams, your future, our challenge
Established1991
Local authority Hertfordshire County Council
Department for Education URN 137637 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalSam Griffin [1]
Staff200+
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment1354
Houses  Waytemore
  Hadham
  Stort
  Dane
Colour(s)Maroon & Silver   
Website https://www.birchwoodonline.co.uk/

Birchwood High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.

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The school was converted to academy status in February 2012. It used to be a community school under the direct control of Hertfordshire County Council. The school continues to coordinate with the council for admissions.

Birchwood High School offers General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSEs) and Business and Technology Education Council (BTECs) as courses of study for pupils, with A Levels offered in the sixth form.

The school has been recognised by The Good Schools Guide for the standard of its maths education in 2009, 2011 and 2012. [2]

History

Birchwood High School was founded when Hadham Hall and The Margaret Dane schools merged in 1991 and the name Birchwood High School was voted for by students from both schools and opened with approximately 450 students; it now has around 1500. The school became an Academy in 2012 and is part of the Bishop's Stortford Educational Trust working with other secondary schools and local primaries to sponsor new schools in the Bishop's Stortford North Development.

Birchwood High School celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary in 2016.

Notable former pupils

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References

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