Range High School

Range High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Formby, Merseyside, England.

This article is about the school in England. For the school in South Africa, see Range High School (Cape Town).

Range High School
Address
Stapleton Road

Formby

Liverpool
,
Merseyside
,
L37 2YN

England
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1976
Local authoritySefton
Department for Education URN137612 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherMichael McGarry
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1072
Websitehttp://www.range.sefton.sch.uk/

The local primary schools St Luke's and Woodlands act as feeder schools to Range High.

The school is one of the few schools in the country to have received five consecutive 'outstanding' ratings from OFSTED.

In 2016, the school was one of only three schools in the area to achieve a positive Progress 8 score on the new national school performance measures. The Progress 8 score for 2019 was also positive and was the highest P8 score of any 11-18 secondary school in Sefton (and the 3rd highest P8 score of any Sefton secondary school overall). P8 measures progress of students from the end of primary school to the end of Year 11. A positive score indicates that students, on average, are achieving grades that exceed their expected progress levels. In 2018 an Ofsted report found the school had declined, head teacher at the time Graham Aldridge blamed " a group of boys". [1]

Specialist school and academy status

Range High School received specialist school status in mathematics and computing in 2005 following large fundraising activities involving parents, local businesses and The Ogden Trust. Upon its gaining specialist status, a government grant was provided to the school, allowing investment in new technology and building work, making what was formerly a geography department into an IT suite, and adding interactive whiteboards in many classrooms.

Previously a community school administered by Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, in November 2011 Range High School converted to academy status.

Notable former pupils
  • Gill Burns MBE (PE teacher and Head of Derby House) is a former England Rugby Union player who captained for her country four times and was part of the winning England Rugby team in 1994.
  • Chris Chibnall, writer of ‘Broadchurch’
  • Stuart Kershaw musician, wrote and produced Atomic Kitten’s no1 album and single “Whole Again” (2001) and is the drummer in Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

References
  1. Lally, Kate (13 February 2019). "Why headteacher of 'outstanding' Merseyside school has suddenly quit his job". Liverpool Echo.

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