Cottingham High School

Cottingham High School is a large secondary school, situated in Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school has been awarded specialist Arts College status, and has modern facilities for media arts, music, drama and dance for Performing Arts subjects. In July 2011 the school became an Academy.HistoryCottingham High School was originally named Cottingham Secondary School and was established in 1955 as a Secondary Modern school. The school site is located on what was formerly Cottingham Grange, built in 1802. Part of the land which belonged to Cottingham Grange is now part of 'The Lawns', owned by the University of Hull for Student Halls of Residence.Due to the increased numbers of pupils attending the school, the original building was no longer large enough, and by September 1975 a new Science and Technical block was completed together with a second gymnasium and new sports hall. In 1978 a new Humanities and Modern Languages block and a Sixth Form block was completed. In 2000 a new Drama and Music block was built, and a Business Studies block was completed in 2003.Since September 2004 Cottingham High School has had Specialist in Media and Performing Arts status, providing pupils with extra equipment and facilities, including a recording studio, film editing suite and ICT facilities.In September 2009 Cottingham High School became part of the Haltemprice Consortium along with Wolfreton School and Hessle High School.