Selby High School is a co-educational, comprehensive high school

High school

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 in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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, England. The main catchment area is from the town of Selby

Selby

Selby is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Situated south of the city of York, along the course of the River Ouse, Selby is the largest and, with a population of 13,012, most populous settlement of the wider Selby local government district.Historically a part of the West Riding...

 itself along with many other small villages from the Selby District including Thorpe Willoughby

Thorpe Willoughby

Thorpe Willoughby is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated just off the A1238 and is in close proximity to Selby.Thorpe Willoughby has a village pub called "The Fox", a set of local shops with a fish and chip shop, a primary school, a...

, Hambleton

Hambleton, Selby

Hambleton is a small village and civil parish near to Selby in North Yorkshire, England. It is a ward of the district of Selby and should not be confused with the district of Hambleton, another district of North Yorkshire....

, Monk Fryston

Monk Fryston

Monk Fryston is a small village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. The name of the village originates from Monk's Free Stone as all of the stone used to build Selby Abbey was obtained from a quarry in the centre of the village across the road from the old school...

, Cawood

Cawood

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 and Wistow

Wistow, North Yorkshire

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.

History

Selby Grammar School was founded in 1908 as an all girls school. In 1968 it became a coeducational grammar school and from 1979 a mixed comprehensive school. The name was changed to Selby High School to reflect the change in status. In June 2005 Selby High School was awarded Specialist School Status in the Performing and Visual Arts. From then the school has built a state of the art dance studio, a 200 seat theatre stand and all weather pitch.The original plan was that the seating would become Selby cinema but the project folded due to lack of interest.

Specialist status

In 2003 Selby High School began to raise money that would go towards securing specialist status. In 2005, the school was awarded specialist status in the Performing Arts after the targets required had been successfully met.
In 2007 the School became the third most improved school in England.
Selby High is regarded as the best school in Selby district and North Yorkshire.

Charities

Selby High School is well known within the area for its charity work. After raising thousands of pounds over the past few years the school is recognised by many charities and has received several honours acknowledging this.

Future plans

The renovation of several rooms with better equipment is also a key point in the school's development.

Business wing

Selby High now has its own commercial site. Services and products can be purchased from the school's website.

House cup

In 2005 the school introduced a new house system with children from all year groups equally distributed into forms. The houses were to be named after famous people from the Yorkshire area. The houses are Garrett

Lesley Garrett

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, Hockney

David Hockney

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, Mason

James Mason

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, Palin

Michael Palin

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. The house system has worked perfectly and so far the winners of the house cups are:

• Garrett (2006)
• Garrett (2007)
• Mason (2008)
• Palin (2009)
• Garrett (2010)
• Hockney (2011)

External links

• Selby High School
• Strictly Business at School
• Ofsted Report September 2000
• Ofsted Report March 2006