Established 1908 Principal Paul Eckersley DfE URN 121702 Tables Founded 1908 | DfE number 815/4225 Phone +44 1757 703327 Number of students 1,100 | |
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Location Leeds RoadSelbyNorth YorkshireYO8 4HTEngland Motto In Arduis Fidelis; "Faithful in adversity" Profiles | ||
Selby High School is a co-educational secondary school in North Yorkshire, England. Its main catchment area is the town of Selby and villages from the Selby District, including Thorpe Willoughby, Hambleton, Monk Fryston, Cawood and Wistow.
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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 grammar school and became coeducational, and in 1979, a mixed comprehensive school. 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 200-seat theatre stand and an all-weather pitch. In January 2013 the school added an ICT suite with new computers.
House system
In 2005 the school introduced a new house system with pupils from all year groups equally distributed into forms. The houses are named after significant Yorkshire people: Lesley Garrett (Garrett); David Hockney (Hockney); James Mason (Mason); and Michael Palin (Palin).