Calderstones School
school in Liverpool, UK
Calderstones School is an English comprehensive school located opposite Calderstones Park on Harthill Road in the Liverpool suburb of Allerton.
The school has several notable former pupils, including music producer Guy Chambers, the architect Sir James Stirling, and founding Beatles member John Lennon.
History
The school was founded in 1921 as Quarry Bank High School for Boys and its first intake of 225 pupils was on 11 January 1922. The first headmaster of the school was R. F. Bailey (an old Etonian), who organised the school on the principles of public school houses. Subsequently, the first year boys' house was named Bailey.
In September 1967, Quarry Bank High School for Boys merged with Calder High School for Girls (a girls' grammar school on an adjacent site on Harthill Road) and Morrison Boys' secondary modern school (on Mather Avenue in Allerton), and adopted the name Quarry Bank Comprehensive School. The same year saw the abolition of the school's house system, whereby the pupils were divided between Mersey, Esmeduna, Wavertree, Sefton, Allerton, Childwall, Aigburth and Woolton houses.
In 1985, the school merged with Aigburth Vale High School, Aigburth, which led to the school operating at four sites with 1,800 pupils; it was also then that it adopted its current name. Aigburth Vale was previously a grammar school with around 600 girls. In 1989, the school divested itself of its Aigburth and Morrison facilities, retaining only the original Calder House and Quarry Bank estates.
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