Walton High School (Stafford)
Walton High School is a large comprehensive school serving a community in the southern part of Stafford. It is awarded "specialist science" status. There are approximately 1350 students on roll.
Jonathan Ive, the principal designer of the iMac, aluminum and titanium PowerBook G4, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, iPod, iPhone, and iPad attended this school.
The headteacher is Neil Finlay, who took over the role from Susan Kirkham when she retired at the end of Winter Term 2007. The previous headteacher was David Hardman. The school catchment area is 4.5 miles around the school.
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