Buile Hill High School
| Established | 1973 |
|---|---|
| Type | Community school |
| Headteacher | Mr. James Inman |
| Location |
Chaseley Road Pendleton Salford Greater Manchester M6 8RD England Coordinates: 53°29′36″N 2°18′15″W / 53.4933°N 2.3043°W |
| Local authority | Salford |
| DfE URN | 105974 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Website | www |
Buile Hill High School is a secondary school, in Pendleton, Salford, in North West England. The main gate situated on Chaseley Road can be found just off the A576 Eccles Old Road. The school itself stands opposite Buile Hill Park.
The school is over 100 years old in some parts, with the school owning a playing field with a nearby college, Pendleton College, which is across the field to the north. It was formerly Salford Grammar School until 1973, when its sixth form along with Pendleton High School for Girls was moved to Pendleton College, which is next door. The building had opened on 12 January 1956, being officially opened on 21 March 1956 by the Mayor of Salford, G. H. Goulden.
The school received an Artsmark Gold Award in May 2006. It is one of the few schools in the area with a fully working theatre and performance space.
The school was rebuilt on the adjacent field and completed in 2008. The new buildings were funded through the Private Finance Initiative.
GCSE figure for 2007 rose from 26 per cent of pupils gaining 5 A* to C the previous year, to 52 per cent in 2007. The school's contextual value added now stands at 999; the national average is 1,000.
The school underwent an OFSTED inspection in October 2007 which described the school as satisfactory overall with elements of good.
It got very low GCSE results in 2008, under the government's minimum for comprehensive schools.
The school's headteacher left the school in the summer of 2006 and was replaced by a 'super head'. The new headteacher, Mr. P. Fitzpatrick, was paid a larger-than-usual salary of £100,000 per year, and was contracted for two years to improve the school's results and ready the school for the move into its new buildings in 2008. However, Fitzpatrick failed to achieve the results that the council had been looking for, and in 2007 he was removed by mutual agreement after just two terms. In 2007 the school's results on the standard measure (% of pupils reaching 5 GCSEs at grades A*-C) jumped from 26% to 52%. He was replaced by Mrs. W. O'Neill, previously the deputy head of Albion High School, Salford. As of 2013, the headteacher is James Inman.
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