Selby High School is a

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, England. Its main catchment area is the town of

Selby Selby is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse. At the 2021 Census, it had a population of 17,193. The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire; from 1974 until 2023, ...

and villages from the Selby District, including Thorpe Willoughby, Hambleton,

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and Wistow.

History

Selby High School links back to Selby Grammar School, founded in 1908 as an all-girls school as Selby High School. In 1967 this changed to the Selby Grammar School

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and became coeducational, and in 1979, a mixed

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. The comprehensive was renamed Selby High School.

Buildings

In 2003 Selby High School began fundraising towards securing specialist school status – the school was awarded specialist status in Performing and Visual Arts in 2005. Following this the school built a dance studio, a 325-seat theatre stand and an all-weather pitch. In September 2010 the school was awarded specialist status in

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. The school maintains these specialisms in the present day. In January 2013 the school added an ICT suite with new computers. In 2017 it added the Eckersley Centre, named after the previous headmaster, Paul Eckersley. Selby High School - geograph

Notable former pupils

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– former MP for

Selby and Ainsty Selby and Ainsty was a constituency in North Yorkshire. Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the seat was subject to boundary changes involving the loss of the Ainsty area. As a consequence, it r ...

(attended the school 1978–84) *

Gareth Ellis Gareth Ellis (born 3 May 1981) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played as a and in the Super League and the NRL, and England and Great Britain at international level. He played at club level for the Wakefield Tr ...

– rugby league England international who currently plays for

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– professional football coach and entrepreneur (attended the school 2000-05) *

Matthew Warchus Matthew Warchus (born 24 October 1966) is an English theatre director, playwright, and filmmaker. He has been the Artistic Director of London's The Old Vic since September 2015. Early life and education Warchus grew up in Selby, North Yorkshir ...

– theatre and film director (attended the school 1978–84)

Selby Grammar School

* Dianne Bevan (''nee'' Roe), Chief Operating Officer from 2007–12 of the

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* Sir John Townsley, educator (attended the school 1976–1982)

Selby Girls' High School

* Prof

Judy Armitage Judith Patricia Armitage (born 1951) is a British molecular and cellular biochemist at the University of Oxford. Early life and education Armitage was born on 21 February 1951 in Shelley, Yorkshire, England. She attended Selby Girls' High ...

FRS, Professor of Biochemistry since 1996 at the

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(

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)

Former teachers

* Mollie Blake, Headmistress from 1975–83 of

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(head teacher of the girls' high school from 1960–68, and the grammar school from 1968–75) and the first President of the

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in 1978 * Joan Firth CB, Chair of Bradford Health Authority from 1998–2000 (Head of Science from 1960–62 at the girls' high school) * Brian Sherratt, head of Religious Studies at the grammar school from 1967–70

References

External links

"Selby High School Specialist School for the Arts and Science"
Ofsted reports 2001–13 {{authority control Community schools in North Yorkshire Educational institutions established in 1908 Secondary schools in North Yorkshire Selby 1908 establishments in England Specialist science colleges in England Specialist arts colleges in England