Range High School


Range High School is a secondary school in Formby, England. The school has about 1300 children aged 11-18, including about 250 in the sixth form. The headteacher is Mike McGarry. The local primary schools St Luke's and Woodlands act as feeder schools to Range High.
The school is one of the few schools in the country to have received five consecutive 'outstanding' ratings from OFSTED.
In 2016, the school was one of only three schools in the area to achieve a positive Progress 8 score on the new national school performance measures. The Progress 8 score for 2019 was also positive and was the highest P8 score of any 11-18 secondary school in Sefton. P8 measures progress of students from the end of primary school to the end of Year 11. A positive score indicates that students, on average, are achieving grades that exceed their expected progress levels.
In 2018 an Ofsted report found the school had declined, head teacher at the time Graham Aldridge blamed " a group of boys".

Specialist school status

Range High School received specialist school status in mathematics and computing in 2005 following large fundraising activities involving parents, local businesses and The Ogden Trust. Upon its gaining specialist status, a government grant was provided to the school, allowing investment in new technology and building work, making what was formerly a geography department into an IT suite, and adding interactive whiteboards in many classrooms.

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