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Whitcliffe Mount School

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Headteacher
  
Miss Jennifer Templar

DfE URN
  
107780 Tables

Founded
  
22 September 1908

DfE number
  
382/4500

Phone
  
+44 1274 851152

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Established
  
22 September 1908 (1908-09-22)

Type
  
Voluntary controlled school

Location
  
Turnsteads Avenue Cleckheaton West Yorkshire BD19 3AQ England

Address
  
Turnsteads Ave, Cleckheaton BD19 3AQ, UK

Local authority
  
Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council

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Whitcliffe Mount School is a mixed secondary school located in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England.

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It was established as Cleckheaton Secondary School in 1908 in temporary premises on Brooke Street. The school moved to its current location in the town in 1910 and was renamed Cleckheaton Secondary and Technical School. Under the Education Act 1944 the school became Whitcliffe Mount Grammar School, and when the school became comprehensive in 1973 it was renamed Whitcliffe Mount School.

Whitcliffe Mount School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school also has a specialism in business and enterprise.

Notable former pupils

  • Wendy Holden, writer and novelist
  • Sarah Holt, athlete
  • Paul Whitaker, cricketer

    • Whitcliffe Mount Grammar School

  • Jeff Butterfield, rugby player
  • Nigel Weatherill, academic

    • References

    Whitcliffe Mount School Wikipedia
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