Harrogate High School
| Motto | Learning First |
|---|---|
| Established | 1963 |
| Type | Academy |
| Principal | Andrew Bayston |
| Head of Governors | Ian Curtis |
| Location |
Ainsty Road Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 4AP England Coordinates: 54°00′05″N 1°31′03″W / 54.0014°N 1.5176°W |
| Staff | 85 |
| Students | 567 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa |
| Website | www |
Harrogate High School is a secondary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It has about 567 pupils on roll and approximately 85 full-time teaching staff. The school has been awarded specialist Sports College status. The current Principal is Andrew Bayston.
The school was founded in 1973 as Harrogate Granby High School by the amalgamation of the original Harrogate High School with Granby Park County Secondary School. Both schools were established in the 1960s. The original Harrogate High School took its first pupils in September 1962 and the first headmaster, until retirement at the end of Easter 1963, was Tom Reginald Lupton. He was succeeded by Mr F.W. Kimber of Goole, who was assisted in the running of the school by deputy heads 'Amy' Mary Johnson and Jack Speak - the latter being succeeded on retirement by John Haslam. Mr F.W. Kimber taught German, whilst the two male deputies both took mathematics classes.
When Mr F.W. Kimber arrived, the High School had 540 pupils and rising. The school, which had been built at a cost of £240,000, was formally opened upon the completion of building works on Friday 13 March 1964 by Alderman Hyman, chairman of the West Riding County Council, deputising for Sir Edward Boyle (later Baron Boyle of Handsworth), Minister of Education. The latter, whose flight had been delayed by bad weather, paid a visit three months later when he praised the school, especially the 'admirable assembly hall', library and gymnasium, and "first-class headmaster with long Grammar School experience, and a very able and well-qualified staff".
During the speech day and prize-giving at the school on 17 March 1965, Mr F.W. Kimber said:
"We headmasters ... are as a race only too delighted to report excellent examination results, but this particular group of sixth form pupils, perhaps more than any that I have met, emphasise the hollowness of a mere recital of examination performance when this is dissociated from personal qualities and the wider aspects of educational maturity. Rarely have I known sixth form pupils who have shown such balanced interests and outlook and such a sense of social service and responsibility. They have moved on to university, colleges of advanced technology, teacher training colleges, and to commerce. They have set standards of service and responsibility, which I sincerely hope future generations of High School pupils will succeed in maintaining."
Granby Park County Secondary School was formed by the amalgamation of New Park Secondary School and Starbeck Secondary School, opening in September 1965.Granby was dropped from the current school's name only in September 2005.
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