Joseph Rowntree School

The Joseph Rowntree School is a comprehensive school on Haxby Road in New Earswick in the unitary authority City of York, England.AdmissionsThe school is just north of Huntington, close to the A1237 bypass, the Foss Walk, and the River Foss. The school has a sixth form. It became a specialist technology college in 1998. JRS has a friendly rivalry with Huntington School, due to the proximity of the schools and frequent participation by both in sports competition. However Joseph Rowntree typically has a lower intake of students from its catchment area than Huntington.HistoryThe Joseph Rowntree Village Trust maintains the model village of New Earswick, built by the Quaker organisation. It is analogous to Bournville and the Cadbury family, who were also Quakers. The village of Earswick is on the other side of the A1237 and the river, to the north-east. The primary school opened in 1912. The school was built when the area was in the North Riding Local Education Authority. It opened on 12 January 1942 to serve the Flaxton Rural District, comprising nineteen villages. It was officially opened on 7 July 1942 by Rab Butler. It had a capacity for 480, based on class sizes of 40. It was 14acre and built in West Huntington Park. From 1944, it was proposed to make the school bi-lateral, with a technical school section of the school intake. In 2016, the school was successfully sued for £180,000 due to disabled discrimination of a former employee.