About the School
Birkenhead School is an independent co-educational day school for pupils from three months to 18 years. The school is a charitable company limited by guarantee and governed by a board of directors who are also trustees.
Since 2013 a number of new governors have been appointed including a new chair of governors. The headmaster has been in office since September 2016.
The school was established in 1860 and became fully co-educational in 2008. The school has strong links to the Church of England although there is a wide range of faiths and nationalities within the community. The school is divided into the Nursery, which takes children from three months to three years, and the Prep which includes the Pre-Prep, Reception and Years 1 to 6. The Senior school is for Years 7 to 13.
What the school seeks to do
Birkenhead is a school which seeks to provide an openand happy community in which endeavour and achievement flourish; which offers a well-proven route to academic success, seeking to enable pupils to realise their potential and prepare them for later life; which creates a caring and structured environment in which pupils can grow in self-confidence and which sets high standards for itself and for its pupils.
About the pupils
Pupils come from a range of backgrounds and ethnicities, across the whole of Wirral, Cheshire, the wider Merseyside area and North Wales. Nationally standardised test data provided by the school indicates that the ability of the pupils in the prep is above average, and broadly average in the senior school. The school's assessment identifies 91 pupils as having special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), including dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, lrlen 's syndrome and a range of other needs. There is one pupil with an educational health and care plan. There are 21 pupils with English as an additional language (EAL) of whom 11 receive additional support. The school does not identify pupils who are more able but offers opportunities to stretch and challenge those who have particular talents.
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