Range High School
Coordinates: 53°32′38″N 3°04′52″W / 53.544°N 3.081°W
| Range High School | |
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Challenge Support Flourish | |
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Formby, Merseyside England | |
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| Type | Secondary Academy |
| Established | 1976 |
| Head | Mr. G. Aldridge |
| Number of students | ~1300 |
| Website | Range High School |
Range High School is located in Formby, England. The high school caters for roughly 1300 students aged 11–18 (including roughly 250 in the Sixth form). The current headteacher is Graham Aldridge. The local primary schools St. Lukes and Woodlands Primary School both act as feeder schools to Range High School. The school is one of the few schools in the country to have received an 'outstanding' rating by OFSTED on five consecutive occasions. The school was last inspected by OFSTED in 2013, when both the main school and the sixth form were judged at this top rating. In 2013, the school also saw a record percentage of students achieving at least five GCSEs at A*–C (including Maths and English), at over 84%. This was the highest percentage achieved in this year by any state school in Sefton. In 2015, the school achieved its strongest A Level results ever, with a 100% pass rate at A2 and 58% of students achieving A*–B grades. With many teacher/teaching assistants for the children of range high school and many of those specially trained for specially needs children.
Specialist school status
Range High School received Specialist school status in Mathematics and Computing in 2005 following large fundraising activities involving parents, local businesses and The Ogden Trust. Upon gaining specialist status, a grant was provided to the school by the Government allowing investment in new technology and to change the building work, making what was formerly a Geography department into a state-of-the-art IT suite with Interactive whiteboards now in operation in many of the classrooms within the school.