Rainhill High School

Rainhill High School is a purpose built 11-18 comprehensive secondary school in Rainhill, Merseyside, England. The school is the official Liverpool F.C. Academy Education Centre in Merseyside for under-18 players to be educated. Notable former pupils from the academy include Raheem Sterling and Jordon Ibe. It is also a Trust School in partnership with the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and St Helens College.HistoryRainhill High School has its origins in the former separate Whiston County Secondary Schools for Boys and Girls which used to occupy a site in Portico Lane. These two well respected schools, which eventually merged on the 'old site' to form a co-educational comprehensive school with a sixth form, served several generations of pupils, many of whom now send their children to Rainhill High.Faced with falling rolls, Knowsley found the school surplus to requirements and St Helens, which did not have enough secondary school places, leased the whole school from Knowsley for five years. On completion of the transfer the school was renamed "Rainhill High School". This unique leasing arrangement provided a stop-gap answer to the problem which St Helens faced but it was obvious that the long term solution lay in building a new school to serve the families of Rainhill and neighbouring areas.