History
Bispham High School was formerly an all-girls' school, founded in the 1950s.
Bispham was initially called Arnold High School for Girls, a girls' grammar school, having been split from local public school Arnold School by the local council. Arnold Girls' amalgamated with local girls' secondary modern Claremont to become Arnold-Claremont in 1975, before changing its name to Greenlands (grey and gold uniform, 6th form wore bottle green uniform) in 1976. The school had an 11-18 age range until 1989, when Blackpool Borough Council separated from Lancashire County Council and moved A Levels to Blackpool Sixth Form College.
The school become Bispham High School (navy blue and yellow uniform), a co-educational secondary school, a specialist Performing Arts College and a Centre of Excellence for Performing Arts in 2000. At the last arts college redesignation, the school was judged exceptional in every criterion.
Plans to merge Bispham and Beacon Hill (now Unity College) were discussed over a number of years. However, these were abandoned in 2010 after the Cameron Ministry scrapped the Building Schools for the Future funding upon which the plans relied.
In 2011, Bispham High affiliated with the Diocese of Blackburn.
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