High Storrs School
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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 Coordinates: 53°21′27″N 1°31′21″W / 53.3576°N 1.5224°W |
| Local authority | City of Sheffield |
| DfE number | 373/4257 |
| 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 Coeducational secondary school and sixth form located on the south-western outskirts of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England.
High Storrs has a Sixth Form and is a specialist Arts College in the Performing Arts, with a second specialism in Maths and Computing. Headteacher Ian Gage took up post in January 2010.
It is situated in Ecclesall, accessed via the A625.
The school opened on 10 March 1880 as the Central Higher Grade School in the centre of Sheffield, and re-located to its present site at High Storrs in 1933. The association for former pupils retained this historical connection in its name, the Old Centralians. However, in 2015, due to diminishing membership, high postal costs and other reasons The Old Centralians Association was dis-associated and its funds handed to the school to form and maintain the High Storrs Alumni Register, whose members would be hereafter called "HighStorrians" and who have a dedicated Facebook Group. Further information can be obtained from the school's public relations staff.
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.
On 11 July 1978, an aerobatics pilot (Philip Meeson, who now owns Jet2, a British aerobatics champion) gave a display above the school; he had chosen the wrong school, as it was Newfield Secondary School he had been asked to perform for.
In 1993, rivalry with the Notre Dame High School led to battles in Endcliffe Park with knives and iron bars. It led to the death of a High Storrs pupil, 17-year-old Grant Jackson (18 November 1975 – 30 April 1993), who was killed with a 2-foot-long bayonet by a 14-year-old, who initially claimed manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, received a life sentence at Sheffield Crown Court on 24 November 1994..
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