Chichester High School (CHS) is an 11–18 mixed,

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and

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with academy status in

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, England. It was established in September 2016 following the merger of Chichester High School for Boys and Chichester High School for Girls. It is part of The Kemnal Academies Trust.

History

Chichester High School for Girls

The Chichester High School for Girls was established in 1910. It merged with the Lancastrian School for Girls in 1972. Lancastrian Schools were founded in Chichester by Joseph Lancaster 1811/1812. The school held dual specialist

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and Arts College status before converting to academy status in September 2013, when the number on roll was 1463 including over 400 students in the

, which was already fully integrated with Chichester High School for Boys. The South Downs Planetarium, which is situated at the back of the site, opened in April 2002.

The site

The school's campus was originally in the Stockbridge area of Chichester. Buildings were then built in Kingsham Road, next to Chichester High School for Boys and the school was split between the two sites for a few years, until a largescale building project at Kingsham was completed and the school could fully relocate there.

Facilities

Recently, the school has carried out a considerable building programme including: a purpose-built building for languages, English, science and design technology, a new Learning Resources Centre, a new administrative and reception area with wireless network. The synthetic

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pitch has been refurbished. The sixth form centre has been extended to accommodate an increased number of

ers. A new sports hall has recently been completed. The

South Downs The South Downs are a range of chalk hills in the south-eastern coastal counties of England that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the ...

Planetarium A planetarium (: planetariums or planetaria) is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetariums is ...

, supported by Sir Patrick Moore, a local resident, was opened on the site on 5 April 2002.

Sports

The school has extensive sporting facilities, including an international-standard irrigated all-weather hockey pitch, a large sports hall, tennis courts, a gym hall, a dance studio, and extensive grounds for a whole range of competitive sports, such as

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...

hockey ''Hockey'' is a family of List of stick sports, stick sports where two opposing teams use hockey sticks to propel a ball or disk into a goal. There are many types of hockey, and the individual sports vary in rules, numbers of players, apparel, ...

, rugby, football,

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

, squash, athletics, and

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. A separate sports centre was completed in 2009, providing students with modern sports facilities.

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* {{authority control Education in Chichester Secondary schools in West Sussex Academies in West Sussex Educational institutions established in 2016 2016 establishments in England