Longton High School

Longton High School

Box Lane, the final site of the school between 1963 and 2010
Motto	Renascor (I am born again)
Established	1760 (1760)
Closed	2010 (2010)
Type	Comprehensive community school Grammar school prior to 1970
Location	Box Lane Meir Staffordshire ST3 5PR England Coordinates: 52°58′56″N 2°06′32″W / 52.9822°N 2.1088°W / 52.9822; -2.1088
Local authority	Stoke-on-Trent
DfE number	???/4040
DfE URN	124386 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	11–16
Houses	Astbury Brindley Bennett Mitchell Lodge Wedgwood

Longton High School was a school in Longton and later Meir, Staffordshire from 1760 to 2010.

The school was founded in 1760 with an endowment from John Bourne and was known as the Longton Free School. By 1763, enough money had been provided for the purchase of land and the construction of a school building, on land near to St John's church in Longton. In the 1820s, the trustees decided to merge the school with the nearby St John's national school and the school lost its separate identity for some years. The national school closed some time between 1859 and 1872 and the trustees of the Bourne estate decided to recreate the free school as a secondary school. The Endowed Schools Act 1869 enabled the trustees to sell the old property and in 1885 a new school was built in Trentham Road, Longton. Management of the school passed in 1900 from the trustees to Longton Borough Council, who placed it under the control of the headmaster of the nearby Sutherland Institute.

Now known as Longton High School, the school specialised as a science school supporting the local pottery industry, and for the first time since the national school days it was co-educational and admitted both girls and boys.

Up to the early 1930s, the school remained co-educational, and, together with Hanley High School, was one of two high schools in the Stoke-on-Trent area. When Brownhills Girls High School opened in the early 1930s and Thistley Hough Girls High School opened in 1938, Longton High School no longer took in girls. It was run by the City of Stoke-on-Trent Education Committee and had around 700 boys with a three-form entry. Having outgrown the Trentham Road site, new premises were needed and in 1940 construction of a new building at Sandon Road, Meir was commenced. Due to the Second World War, the school did not move into the new premises until 1947 as the new buildings had been requisitioned.