Knutsford High School is a secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 in Knutsford

Knutsford

Knutsford is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, in North West England...

, Cheshire

Cheshire

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, England. It has Specialist School Status in the areas of English and Humanities.

Buildings

There are two main sites to the school, lower and upper school. Between the two sites there is a public walkway known as the link path. Students in years 7 to 8 are taught in the lower school building. At year 9 the students begin at upper school. Lower school was once known as middle school as it was considered the middle stage of education back when students were expected to find work after their final year at the school - upper school being the last stage of education. The upper school building is joined to the Knutsford Leisure Centre providing excellent sporting facilities for the P.E department. Outside both buildings are vast fields with multiple football pitches and multiple tennis courts and a three-pitch astroturf

AstroTurf

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 pitch,

Technology

Knutsford High School offers the latest technology available for CAD (Computer Aided Design), Computer Graphics and physical construction design, with hardware including over 100 of Apple macs . However, these are only available to the upper students and all teachers have white mac books (most running OSX Tiger). For students, there are over two hundred top of the range high performance, general use, ICT computers. All computers at Knutsford High School have the latest and best available software to meet students needs. One such example being the full Adobe CS3. The school also has laser cutters for cutting out CAD work and numerous other wood working devices.

Notable students

• Charlotte Wakefield - An established actress, who has starred in the musical Spring Awakening
  Spring Awakening
  Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of...
  
   along with television shows.
• Danielle Hope
  Danielle Hope
  Danielle Hope is an English actress and singer. She is the winner of the BBC talent contest Over The Rainbow and as a result is currently playing the part of Dorothy in the Andrew Lloyd Webber production of The Wizard of Oz, which began performances in the West End at the London Palladium in...
  
   - Winner of the BBC's Over the Rainbow
  Over the Rainbow (2010 TV series)
  Over the Rainbow is a British television talent series which aired on BBC One from March to May 2010. It documents the search for a new, undiscovered musical theatre performer to play the role of Dorothy in the forthcoming Andrew Lloyd Webber stage production of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and a...
  
  and will star in Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical, The Wizard of Oz.
• Rick Arnell - 4 A*s
• Callum Godwin - international playboy

Everton and England footballer Phil Jagielka

External links

• Official site
• Knutsford High School VLE