Selby High School | |
Coordinates: | 53.7807°N -1.0787°W |
Motto: | In Arduis Fidelis "Faithful in adversity". |
Established: | 1908 |
Type: | Community school |
Head Label: | Principal |
Head: | Nick Hinchliffe |
Address: | Leeds Road |
City: | Selby |
County: | North Yorkshire |
Country: | England |
Postcode: | YO8 4HT |
Local Authority: | North Yorkshire Council |
Dfeno: | 815/4225 |
Urn: | 121702 |
Ofsted: | yes |
Enrolment: | c. 1100 |
Lower Age: | 11 |
Upper Age: | 16 |
Houses: | Garrett, Hockney, Mason and Palin[1] |
Colours: | Grey (Year 7 – 8) and Black (9–11) |
Selby High School is a co-educational secondary school in North Yorkshire, England. Its main catchment area is the town of Selby and villages from the Selby District, including Thorpe Willoughby, Hambleton, Monk Fryston, Cawood and Wistow.
Selby High School links back to Selby Grammar School, founded in 1908 as an all-girls school as Selby High School. In 1967 this changed to the Selby Grammar School grammar school and became coeducational, and in 1979, a mixed comprehensive school. The comprehensive was renamed Selby High School.
In 2003 Selby High School began fundraising towards securing specialist school status – the school was awarded specialist status in Performing and Visual Arts in 2005. Following this the school built a dance studio, a 325-seat theatre stand and an all-weather pitch. In September 2010 the school was awarded specialist status in Science. The school maintains these specialisms in the present day.[2] In January 2013 the school added an ICT suite with new computers. In 2017 it added the Eckersley Centre, named after the previous headmaster, Paul Eckersley.