Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational 11–16 secondary school with academy status near Birkenhead Park, in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. It was renamed University Academy Birkenhead in 2011 from the merger of Park High School and Rock Ferry High School and was based at the former Park High School site. It was a Grammar School (Park High Grammar School for Girls ) from 1926 to 1971, then went Co Educational in 1971 and was then just called Park High School.
| Birkenhead Park School | |
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Park Road South , , CH43 4UY England | |
| Coordinates | 53°23′26″N 3°02′34″W / 53.39063°N 3.04270°W |
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| Type | Academy |
| Motto | Hold Fast That Which Is Good |
| Established | 2011 (Rock Ferry High School 1925, Park High Grammar School 1926) |
| Trust | The BePART Educational Trust |
| Specialist | Sports College |
| Department for Education URN | 136411 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Head teacher | Peter Mee (Head of School) Mike Kilbride (Executive Headteacher) |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrolment | 526 |
| Website | birkenheadparkschool |
University Academy Birkenhead was sponsored by the University of Chester, the University of Liverpool, Birkenhead Sixth Form College, Wirral Metropolitan College and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.[1] In April 2015 the school transferred to the control of the BePART Educational Trust, with Birkenhead Sixth Form College as sole sponsor, and took its current name.[citation needed]
Former pupils
editPark High Grammar School
edit- Hilda Ellis Davidson, academic and antiquarian
- Sir Leslie Froggatt, chairman of Shell Australia
- Stephen F. Kelly, author and broadcaster
- Peter Johnson, businessman
- Tom Palin, artist
- George Withy, journalist
- Steve Wilcockson, archdeacon of Doncaster
Park High School
edit- Emma Wray, television actress
References
edit- ^ Marles, Leigh (17 January 2012). "EXCLUSIVE: Top teachers resign from Birkenhead's new academy school". Wirral Globe.