BOOTLE HIGH SCHOOL

'Bootle High School' is located in Netherton, Sefton. The current headteacher is Mr P. Fryer. The school caters for around 600 pupils between the ages of 11 to 16 years old.

Contents

History

New school proposal

References

External links

History

Bootle High School started as Bootle Grammar School For Boys. Bootle Grammar was based at Balliol Road, Bootle (where the new Hugh Baird annexe now stands) until 1961 when it moved to a new site at Marian Way in Netherton.
In 1973 Warwick Bolam Secondary School merged with Bootle Grammar School to become Warwick Bolam High School. The school resided on two sites until 1983 when Warwick Bolam High School merged with The Countess Of Derby based at Browns Lane. The name was then changed to Bootle High School.
For two years the school was based on three sites until in 1985, when the council decided to use the Glovers Lane site to build a community centre, now known as the Netherton Activity Centre. The school was back to two sites again until 1991, at which point the entire school moved to a single site in Browns Lane after spending over 3 million pounds on improving and extending the building.

New school proposal

The Liverpool Echo newspaper reported in October 2006 that Sefton Council had been awarded government funding to build a new school, which would merge Bootle High School into Litherland High School, mainly due to falling intake numbers particularly at Bootle High School, with proposals for a Sixth form to be constructed on the site of Bootle High School.^[1] Although funding has been allocated, approval for the project has yet to occur due to an objection raised with regards to the closure of Bootle High School, although indications had been made that the DfES had approved Sefton's plan.^[2]
A meeting held at the Town Hall, Bootle in May 2007 indicated the project to cost approximately £22.4m, with the new higher capacity Litherland High School to take effect from 1st September 2009. All pupils at Bootle High School would be guaranteed a place at the new Litherland High School, should the proposals be approved.^[3]

References

1. £20m dream for new high school icLiverpool.icNetwork.co.uk, 20th October 2006
2. Consultation outcome for Litherland & Bootle High Schools merger Sefton.gov.uk, 21st February 2007
3. Proposals for Litherland & Bootle High Schools merger Sefton.gov.uk, 15th May 2007

External links

★ School Website