Birkenhead Park School

Birkenhead Park School
Address
Park Road South Birkenhead , Merseyside , CH43 4UY England
Coordinates	53°23′26″N 3°02′34″W / 53.39063°N 3.04270°W / 53.39063; -3.04270
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Hold Fast That Which Is Good
Established	2011 (Rock Ferry High School 1925, Park High Grammar School 1926)
Trust	The BePART Educational Trust
Specialist	Sports College
Department for Education URN	136411 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Peter Mee (Head of School) Mike Kilbride (Executive Headteacher)
Gender	Co-educational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	526
Website	birkenheadparkschool.com

Birkenhead Park School is a co-educational 11–16 secondary school with academy status near Birkenhead Park, in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. It was renamed University Academy Birkenhead in 2011 from the merger of Park High School and Rock Ferry High School and was based at the former Park High School site. It was a Grammar School (Park High Grammar School for Girls ) from 1926 to 1971, then went Co Educational in 1971 and was then just called Park High School.

University Academy Birkenhead was sponsored by the University of Chester, the University of Liverpool, Birkenhead Sixth Form College, Wirral Metropolitan College and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council.^[1] In April 2015 the school transferred to the control of the BePART Educational Trust, with Birkenhead Sixth Form College as sole sponsor, and took its current name.^{[citation needed]}

Former pupils

Park High Grammar School

• Hilda Ellis Davidson, academic and antiquarian
• Sir Leslie Froggatt, chairman of Shell Australia
• Stephen F. Kelly, author and broadcaster
• Peter Johnson, businessman
• Tom Palin, artist
• George Withy, journalist
• Steve Wilcockson, archdeacon of Doncaster

Park High School

• Emma Wray, television actress

References

This page was last edited on 20 January 2024, at 03:33