Birkenhead Park School Explained

Birkenhead Park School
Coordinates:53.3906°N -3.0427°W
Head:Peter Mee (Head of School)Mike Kilbride (Executive Headteacher)
Motto:Hold Fast That Which Is Good
Established:2011
(Rock Ferry High School 1925, Park High Grammar School 1926)
Type:Academy
Trust:The BePART Educational Trust
Specialist:Sports College
Address:Park Road South
City:Birkenhead
County:Merseyside
Country:England
Postcode:CH43 4UY
Ofsted:yes
Urn:136411
Gender:Co-educational
Lower Age:11
Upper Age:16
Enrolment:526

Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational 11–16 secondary school with academy status near Birkenhead Park, in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. It was renamed University Academy Birkenhead in 2011 from the merger of Park High School and Rock Ferry High School and was based at the former Park High School site. It was a Grammar School (Park High Grammar School for Girls) from 1926 to 1971, then went Co Educational in 1971 and was then just called Park High School.

University Academy Birkenhead was sponsored by the University of Chester, the University of Liverpool, Birkenhead Sixth Form College, Wirral Metropolitan College and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.[1] In April 2015 the school transferred to the control of the BePART Educational Trust, with Birkenhead Sixth Form College as sole sponsor, and took its current name.

Former pupils

Park High Grammar School

Park High School

Notes and References

  1. News: EXCLUSIVE: Top teachers resign from Birkenhead's new academy school. Leigh. Marles. Wirral Globe. 17 January 2012.