Withernsea High School is a

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secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

located in

Withernsea Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Its white inland lighthouse, rising around above Hull Road, now houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall, wh ...

in the

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, England. The school was officially opened on Thursday 28 April 1955 by

Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a British Conservative politician of the 1930s. He h ...

. In December 2014 works began on a rebuild and refurbishment of the school buildings, with the works completed in summer 2016. Today it is a community school administered by

East Riding of Yorkshire Council East Riding of Yorkshire Council is the local authority for the East Riding of Yorkshire, a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area within the larger ceremonial county of the same name. The council has been under no overall cont ...

. Withernsea High School offers

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and

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as programmes of study for pupils.

References

External links

Withernsea High School official website
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