Westborough High School, Dewsbury

Westborough High School
Type	Foundation school
Headteacher	Jennifer Napper
Location	Stockhill Street Dewsbury West Yorkshire WF13 2JE England Coordinates: 53°41′36″N 1°38′50″W / 53.6933°N 1.6473°W / 53.6933; -1.6473
Local authority	Kirklees
DfE number	382/4057
DfE URN	107775 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Mixed
Ages	10–16
Website	www.w-h-s.org.uk

Westborough High School is a mixed secondary school located in Westborough, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on Oxford Road, and shares its grounds with St John Fisher Catholic High School. The school was founded in the 1960s and has had close links with the other nearby secondary schools. The current (2013) headteacher of Westborough is Jennifer Napper

The school admits pupils from the ages of 11–16. Its catchment areas are Ravensthorpe, Savile Town and the local areas of Boothroyd.

Over the past 5 years the school's music department, in the new performing arts block at Westborough, has developed a public profile with concerts performed by pupils in the summer and winter. Bands originating at Westborough are the Samba Band and Drumline, which have performed in Batley Park, York and on Sky TV during a rugby match.

Westborough High School achieved the third successive year of record rises in GCSE results, with 54% of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C, and 34% of these being in English and Maths, a 6% rise on last year, exceeding a 30% target set by the Government.

In 2011 Birkdale High School was formally closed, with Westborough High School taking over its site. Some pupils from Birkdale transferred to the Westborough campus immdemiately. However the former Birkdale High School campus was still used to educate a number of pupils under Westborough High School management, and renamed as the Halifax Road Campus. The Halifax Road Campus closed down when the final set of year 11 students finished their GCSEs in 2014.^[1]

References

↑ Halifax Road Campus

Schools in Kirklees

Primary schools	Almondbury Community School Batley Grammar School Crowlees Junior & Infant School Netherhall Learning Campus Royds Hall School

Middle schools	Scissett Middle School

Secondary schools	All Saints RC College Almondbury Community School Batley Girls' High School Batley Grammar School BBG Academy Castle Hall Academy Colne Valley High School Creative & Media Studio School Holmfirth High School Honley High School King James's School Manor Croft Academy The Mirfield Free Grammar Moor End Academy Netherhall Learning Campus North Huddersfield Trust School Royds Hall School St John Fisher RC Academy Salendine Nook High School Shelley College Spen Valley High School Thornhill Community Academy Upper Batley High School Westborough High School Whitcliffe Mount School

Grammar schools	Heckmondwike Grammar School

Independent schools	Huddersfield Grammar School Markazi Masjid

FE & sixth form colleges	Greenhead College Huddersfield New College Kirklees College

Defunct schools	Birkdale High School

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