High Storrs Grammar School for Girls
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| Motto | Designed for success |
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| Established | 1933 |
| Type | Community school |
| Headteacher | Claire Tasker |
| Location |
High Storrs Road Sheffield South Yorkshire S11 7LH England 53°21′27″N 1°31′21″W / 53.3576°N 1.5224°WCoordinates: 53°21′27″N 1°31′21″W / 53.3576°N 1.5224°W |
| Local authority | City of Sheffield |
| DfE URN | 107139 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1575 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Crucible, Lyceum, Merlin, Montgomery |
| Colours | Red, Yellow, Blue, Green |
| Former name | High Storrs Grammar School |
| Website | High Storrs |
High Storrs is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form college on the south-western outskirts of Sheffield, England.
High Storrs has a Sixth Form in Ecclesall and is a specialist Arts College in the Performing Arts, with a second specialism in Maths and Computing.
The school opened on 10 March 1880 as the Central Higher Grade School in the centre of Sheffield and relocated to its present site at High Storrs in 1933. The Old Centralians was an association for former pupils that operated until 2015.
The building housed two separate grammar schools from the 1940s to 1968: High Storrs Grammar School for Boys, and High Storrs Grammar School for Girls. It was administered by the Sheffield Education Committee. The buildings were improved in the early 1960s.
These were merged into a single comprehensive school, starting in September 1969 with around 1,600 boys and girls.
In 1993 a 17-year-old pupil was killed by a wound form a bayonet by a pupil of Notre Dame High School in Endcliffe Park.
In 2008 the "Key Stage" system was changed to the Vertical System, where instead of year groups, there are houses with ten forms to each house. Each form has 6 Y7s, 6 Y8s, 6 Y9s, 6 Y10s, 6 Y11s and no sixth formers. There are 2 classes of around 30 in each house, so 8 classes. Forms 1-5 are a class and forms 6-10 are a class. This system is meant to reduce bullying and encourage friendships with pupils of different ages. The four houses are named after the main four theatres in Sheffield: Crucible, Lyceum, Merlin and Montgomery. Sixth form students are also attached to a vertical form for organisational and mentoring purposes; typically three sixth formers are attached to one form.
In 2008 63% of pupils who took GCSE exams achieved the standard of 5 A*–C grades, including Maths and English. This is above both the Local Authority average of 40.8% and the national average of 47.6%.
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