Hessle High School
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Hessle High School is a high school
High school
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 in Hessle
Hessle
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, East Riding of Yorkshire
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 near Hull
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, England
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.

The school is split over two sites. Years 7 and 8 are located on Boothferry Road, with years 9 and above (including the sixth form college
Sixth form college
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 students) on Heads Lane.

The Heads Lane site is built around Tranby House, which was originally built in 1807 by local merchant John Barkworth. The house is an almost exact duplicate of the now-demolished Tranby Lodge, and Hessle Mount, now a private junior school. This building was also the house of one of the survivors from the Titanic.

The Head of Hessle High School presently is Mrs Young who took over from Mr D.J. Rose, who played an active part in the community helping many schools and organisations.

The education standards remain high above primary level, with the school having a Specialist Science College, which achieves moderate to high levels.

It is also in cooperation with the gyms; Cannons, Total Fitness and Warners for the Year 10 and 11 Physical Education lessons.

Hessle High is also in a federation with Hessle Penshurst Primary School.

Hessle Sixth Form

Since successfully achieving academy status - The Hessle Academy Community Trust - the sixth form remains part of a consortium with Wolfreton School
Wolfreton School
Wolfreton School and Language College is a large state secondary school in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.It is situated five miles to the west of Kingston upon Hull city centre. It is split over two sites, one in Willerby and one in Kirk Ella...

 and Cottingham High School
Cottingham High School
Cottingham High School is a large secondary school, situated in Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school has been awarded specialist Arts College status, and has modern facilities for media arts, music, drama and dance...

. Students have the opportunity to study post-16 courses at partnership schools. .

Distinguished Past students

The school has a number of distinguished past students, particularly in the field of music. Past Heads of Music at the school included Geoffrey Heald-Smith, Roy Walmsley, and Ted Haythornwhite. These latter two encouraged a number of students, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, who, since leaving the school, have made a considerable contribution to their chosen aspect of the art, whether in the field of professional performance, in education or in historical musical research.

School Folk-lore

Tranby House was said to be haunted. The gym and school hall, constructed benind the main house, in 1966/67, were built on the site of the old stable block. Countless generations of school students were told of the 'ghost of Mrs Barkworth' who, supposedly, 'walked' the area at night. (Evelyn Barkworth died in 1933) Several pupils would testify having seen her. Some, before the days of burglar alarms, even visited the school late at night. The story was also perpetuated by members of the teaching staff. Years later it came to light that the whole story was a figment of the imagination of the school caretaker, a Mr Coates!!

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