Chesterfield High School is a school located in Crosby, Merseyside, England, specialising in sports and ICT and officially opened on March 18, 1974, with the first official academic year starting in September 1972. The school has an intake of roughly 1200 students in years 7–11.
The school was founded as a comprehensive school formed from the amalgamation of Waterloo Park Grammar School for Girls at Haigh Road and the Crosby County Secondary School for Boys, at Coronation Road. There were 1174 pupils on roll upon opening, with a Sixth Form of 162 students, comprising 130 girls and 32 boys. The school has undergone numerous changes since first opening, the biggest of which was the amalgamation of the Annexe and its pupils into the main school at the Chesterfield Road site, along with the addition of The Mall and its associated redevelopments.
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