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'{{About|the school in Yorkshire|the school in Southport|Birkdale High School (Sefton)}} {{Infobox UK school | name = Birkdale High School | image = | size = | latitude = 53.69986 | longitude = -1.64696 | dms = | motto = Forward to Success | motto_pl = | established = | approx = | closed = 2011 | c_approx = | type = | religion = | president = | head_label = | head = | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = | chair = | founder = | founder_pl = | specialist = | street = Wheelwright Drive | city = [[Dewsbury]] | county = [[West Yorkshire]] | country = [[England]] | postcode = WF13 4JB | LEA = [[Kirklees]] | ofsted = yes | urn = 107774 | staff = | enrollment = | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 16 | gender = | houses = | colours = | publication = | free_label_1 = | free_1 = | free_label_2 = | free_2 = | free_label_3 = | free_3 = | website = http://www.birkdalehigh.org.uk/ | website_name = Official website }} '''Birkdale High School''' was a [[secondary school]] located in [[Kirklees]], [[West Yorkshire]], [[England]]. The school's buildings were constructed in two distinct phases; the older building, comprising mainly the former Wheelwright Grammar school (Girls' section) and a newly built wing connected by a bridge c1980. The school was set amongst grassed grounds with a large playing and track area and more secluded grassed quadrangles located within the main building. The school was located on Wheelwright Drive. near the [[Dewsbury]]/[[Batley]] border. The intake of the school was reflected by the surrounding area, most pupils were taken from the Batley/Dewsbury area due to the school's central location and its position on many bus routes through the surrounding towns. The school had a slightly higher male population due to the presence of an all-girls school in the school's catchment area as noted by [[OFSTED]]. The school became quite small in the years before closure, with just under 600 pupils in 2006/7 ==Closure== Despite a campaign by parents, staff, pupils and members of the local community to keep Birkdale High School open,<ref>Dewsbury Reporter Article, http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/Rallying-call-to-save-Dewsbury.6435512.jp, 23 July 2010.</ref><ref>Online gallery showing protest, http://www.birkdalehigh.org.uk/news/galleries/save-our-school-pictures-july-2010.html</ref><ref>Yorkshire Evening Post article, http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Dewsbury-Protest-march-over-plans.6541914.jp, 21 September 2010.</ref><ref>Huddersfield Examiner article, http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2010/09/21/pupiles-take-to-the-streets-to-save-birkdale-high-86081-27307267/, 21 September 2010.</ref> [[Kirklees Council]] formally closed the school in August 2011. The school was merged with [[Westborough High School]], with some pupils from Birkdale transferring to the Westborough campus. However the former Birkdale High School campus is still used to educate some pupils (under the management Westborough High School), and is currently known as the '''Halifax Road Campus'''. The Halifax Road Campus will be closed when the final set of year 11 students finish their GCSE's in 2014.<ref>http://www.w-h-s.org.uk/halifax-road-site/</ref> ==Notable staff== * [[Maggie Atkinson]], [[Children's Commissioner for England]] was Head of English in the 1980s<ref name="dewsbury1">{{cite web | url=http://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/local/former-dewsbury-teacher-in-job-row-1-1351762 | title=Former Dewsbury teacher in job row | publisher=Dewsbury Reporter | date=22 October 2009 | accessdate=30 December 2013}}</ref> ==Notable former pupils== * [[Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi]], politician. * [[Gary Sykes]], featherweight boxer. * Helen-Joyce Rehman, Top bitch == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.birkdalehigh.org.uk/ Former school website] * [http://www.w-h-s.org.uk/halifax-road-site/ Halifax Road Campus website] {{Schools in Kirklees}} [[Category:Defunct schools in Kirklees]] [[Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 2011]] [[Category:2011 disestablishments in England]]'