Leek High School

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Leek High School
Address
Leek High School
Springfield Road

Leek
,
Staffordshire
,
ST13 6EU

England
,
United Kingdom
Coordinates 53°06′26″N2°00′35″W / 53.10723°N 2.00986°W / 53.10723; -2.00986
Information
School type Academy Converter
Local authority Staffordshire County Council
Trust The Talentum Learning Trust
Department for Education URN 142711 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherSteve Fryer [1]
Staff59 [2] (2019)
Gender Mixed [3]
Age13to 18 Years
Enrollment373 [3]  (2020)
Capacity665 [3]
Houses
  • Brough
  • Brindley
Website https://www.lhs.ttlt.org.uk

Leek High School is a mixed upper school (termed 'high school') located in Leek, Staffordshire, England. As of 2021, the number of students at the school is 373, including the sixth form, but capacity is 665. [3]

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Previously a foundation school administered by Staffordshire County Council, the school converted to academy status in April 2016, joining The Talentum Learning Trust. [3] The school continues to coordinate with Staffordshire County Council for admissions. The school is colocated with The Meadows School, a mixed special school.

The school operates a joint sixth form with Westwood College, the Leek Federation Sixth Form, [4] with a shuttle bus operating between the two sites.

History

Grammar school

Leek High School originally opened in 1900 as a co-educational secondary school located within the Nicholson Institute. [5] [6] It expanded throughout the twenty years following until 1921 when the girls were transferred to Westwood Hall. In 1939, the boys were transferred to a new building in Westwood Road. [5]

Comprehensive

In 1965, the school was merged with the two secondary modern schools in Springfield Road, Mountside Boys' School and Milner Girls' School, to form a mixed comprehensive secondary school, [5] with the Westwood Road building renamed as the Warrington Hall.

With the introduction of three-tier education in the late 1970s, the school moved all pupils to Springfield Road, extended the buildings with the addition of an eight laboratory science block [7] and became a high school, with the Warrington hall becoming St Edwards Middle School. [5]

The school achieved Specialist Technology College status in 2004.

Notable former pupils

Leek High School for Boys

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References

  1. ↑ "Senior Leadership Team". Leek High School. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Leek High School". Schools Financial Benchmarking. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Leek High School". Get information about schools. UK Government. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "Sixth Form". Leek High School. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 A P Baggs, M F Cleverdon, D A Johnston and N J Tringham (1996). C R J Currie and M W Greenslade (ed.). 'Leek: Leek and Lowe', in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7, Leek and the Moorlands. London: British History Online. pp. 84–169. Retrieved 14 October 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "About Leek High". Leek High School. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  7. ↑ "Extensions to Leek High School". Staffordshire Moorlands District Council. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
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