John Summers High School (formerly Deeside High School) is an English medium mixed comprehensive secondary school in the town of Queensferry, Wales, near the border with England. It teaches children aged 11-18. Sixth form education, (16-18), was provided through the Deeside Consortium, a group of three local high schools and the nearby sixth form college although Deeside College has now withdrawn from this consortium. Its Local Education Authority is Flintshire County Council.
Its current Headmaster is a Mr. MA Rashud, who began working at the school in 2001. The deputy head teacher is Mrs. P Stanford, replacing Mr R Sykes and the assistant Deputy is Mr B Davies. The head of key stage 3 is Miss K Jones and the head of key stage 4 is Mrs J Bellis. The building has three stories and approximately 30 teaching rooms. The Maths department is on the second floor. History and languages are on the first.
The 2006 GCSE results saw all students leaving the school with at least four GCSE's.
During the last four years, the school has put on four school productions all of which were extremely high class. They were - Our Day Out, Grease, Back to the 80's and We Will Rock You.
In 2011, John Summers received an ESTYN report, and came out with a good and an excellent.
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