Harrogate High School is a secondary school in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It has about 720 students on roll and approximately 85 full-time teaching staff. The school has been awarded specialist Sports College status. The current Principal is Andrew Bayston.
2012 Examination results (A-Level): There have been significant improvements in the results of students sitting AS examinations. The overall pass rate of 92% shows 30% of students achieving the top grades of A- B, up 11% from 2011. Year 13 A2 students at Harrogate High School have achieved an overall pass rate of 96% with 39% of students achieving A*- B grades.
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“Young people of high school age can actually feel themselves changing. Progress is almost tangible. It’s exciting. It stimulates more progress. Nevertheless, growth is not constant and smooth. Erik Erikson quotes an aphorism to describe the formless forming of it. “I ain’t what I ought to be. I ain’t what I’m going to be, but I’m not what I was.””
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“They talk about their Pilgrim blood,
Their birthright high and holy!
A mountain-stream that ends in mud
Methinks is melancholy.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
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