COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL LEFTWICH

'The County High School Leftwich' is an average sized Media Arts co-educational comprehensive school that educates approximately 1000 children between 11 and 16 years of age. It is located in the district of Leftwich, Northwich in Cheshire, England. Children come here from neighbouring areas such as Moulton, Davenham, Leftwich, Kingsmead and Winsford.
There are three floors in the building, A, B and C. The rooms have names like A22, the floor, then the number of the room. There are also some tennis courts, and the MUGA, which is an astroturf pitch.
Inside the building, there is a gym, which has a rockwall in it. There is also a media suite, which is very new, and used to be a drama studio, which was tatty, and really dark. Now, the media suite is cut into two areas, and is much lighter. People can do dance and drama in there. The school also offers music lessons for instruments such as the flute, keyboard and cornet. There is a band which plays at events such as the Christmas fair.
The school gets reasonable results at GCSE, which are about average for Cheshire. However, at A level, Northwich's sixth form college, that the pupils will attend, achieves quite superb results - the best in Cheshire (not counting Altrincham - formerly Cheshire).

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History

Alumni

External links

History

The school used to be known as the 'Northwich County Grammar School for Girls', a selective single sex school with provisions for boarding pupils, which had a sixth form. The school was changed to a comprehensive in September 1978, with sixth form pupils from the school and the former Sir John Deane's Grammar School going to the new Sir John Deane's College. Essentially the two grammar schools were split into two comprehensives - one for ages 11-16 and the other for 16-18.

Alumni

★ Jennifer Saunders Actress 1969-76

★ Shirley Strong Olympic Hurdler 1970-5

External links

★ The official website

★ Current OFSTED report

★ The CHS Leftwich forum