KING DAVID HIGH SCHOOL in Merseyside, Liverpool

Education Centre Information: King David High School:

Establishment Type:Voluntary Aided School
Phase of Education: Secondary
Status: Open
Local Authority: Liverpool
Boarders: No Boarders
Sixth Form: Has a sixth form
Urban/Rural Description: Urban > 10k - less sparse
Special Classes: No Special Classes
Religious Character: Jewish
Nursery Provider: No Nursery Classes
Total Pupils: 654
Number of boys: 362
Number of girls: 292
Admissions: Comprehensive
Age Range: 11-18
Gender: Mixed
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Background:

Founded in 1844; moved to present site in 1957; two-storey building in residential suburb in south of city; playing fields and swimming pool attached. Sixth-form facilities, with plans to extend. Music and drama suite; six science laboratories; recently-refurbished art and technology rooms. Proud of regional reputation for music and extra-curricular drama. Provides accommodation for gifted and talented resource centre for excellence in Liverpool. Over-subscribed, with 2.5 applications per place. Beacon status (1999). Ethos: 'The school provides a stimulating and enriching Jewish and secular education for all Jewish children in the city of Liverpool and its environs, and provides an education of similar quality and relevance to non-Jewish pupils admitted to the school. It demonstrates the finest standards of multicultural education by cultivating the distinctive qualities of the cultures within the school rather than by blurring their distinctions'.