{{distinguish|West Calder High School}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox school | name = Calder High School | image = Calder_High.jpg | image_size = 180px | coordinates = {{coord|53.73260|-1.97530|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | motto = Everybody, everyday | president = | head_label = Headteacher | head = Andy Taylor | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = | chair = TBC | founder = | specialist = Technology | address = Brier Hey Lane | city = Mytholmroyd<br />Hebden Bridge | county = West Yorkshire | country = England | postal_code = HX7 5QN | local_authority = Calderdale | ofsted = yes | urn = 107562 | staff = | enrolment = 1,277 | gender = Coeducational | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 16 | houses = | colours = House Colours (Red, Yellow, Green and Blue) | publication = | free_label1 = Former name | free_text1 = Hebden Bridge Grammar School | free_label2 = | free_text2 = | free_label3 = | free_text3 = | website = https://www.calderlearningtrust.com/ }}

'''Calder High School''' is a coeducational comprehensive school. It specialises in technology, with technology rooms. It is located in the village of Mytholmroyd, in the metropolitan district of Calderdale, in northern England.

It is [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1837171 situated] in the middle of the village, north of the A646.

==History==

Prior to the 1950s students attended the local Hebden Bridge Grammar School, until Calder High opened in May 1952. The new school was part of reforms of post-war education where buildings were designed to be modern and provide secondary education not just the few, but the many. Designed by the architects department of West Riding County Council with models made by Thorp Modelmakers of London, Calder originally had a quad of classrooms with longitudinal wings, enclosing twin playgrounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Model_Britain/FK4fEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Model Britain – The Architectural Models of Twentieth Century Dreams |website=Google Books |publisher=Taylor & Francis |access-date=December 1, 2025}} </ref> In 1963, a new science block, school theatre and bus bays were added.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hebdenbridgehistory.org.uk/archive/downloads/newspaper-cuttings.pdf|title=Hebden Bridge History newspaper cuttings archive|accessdate=28 May 2007}}</ref> On 28 December 1969, ''Songs of Praise'' was shown from the school. By the 1970s it had 1200 boys and girls. Until April 1974, it was administered by the Calder Divisional Executive of West Riding County Council.

More recently, a new Sixth Form building was added and officially opened on 12 July 2004 by outgoing headteacher David Scott.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/news04/28.html |title=Hebweb news: Calder High School is saying farewell to David Scott |website=www.hebdenbridge.co.uk |accessdate=30 May 2007}}</ref> At the start of the 2007 academic year, the school theatre was renamed 'The Ted Hughes Theatre' and was re-opened and named under the consent of Ted Hughes' widow.

In April 2019, the school car park just off Brier Hey Lane became decommissioned to become the ground for the new English teaching block containing nine classrooms. This project was completed in August 2019 and was opened ready for the 2019-2020 academic year in September 2019. In 2025 the school converted to an Academy as it became part of the Pennine Alliance Learning Trust, later that year a project to open an alternative provision unit was established at the school using a modular building to the rear of the building, it opened in November 2025.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8zy5519kwo |title=Classroom plan for pupils with behavioural issues |website=BBC News |accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref>

==Activities== In October 2006, the school obtained a license to run a week-long radio station, broadcast directly from the school. The radio was named Royd FM. The success of this project led to Royd FM broadcasting again in December 2007. This has since been discontinued and the studio is now used as an office by the Head of Media Studies.

Each year, since 1952,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hebdenbridge.co.uk/features/pace-egg_new.html|title=PACE EGG PLAY BACKGROUND AND PHOTOS|website=www.hebdenbridge.co.uk|accessdate=10 June 2025}}</ref> students of Calder High put on the Easter-time performance of the Pace Egg Play in the surrounding area. In both 1974 and 1975 students from the school appeared on BBC One's Play for Today<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=Pace+Egg%2C+Calder+High+School#topl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250916023312/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order%3Dfirst%26q%3DPace%2BEgg%2C%2BCalder%2BHigh%2BSchool#topl|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 September 2025|title=PACE EGG PLAY Results 1 to 2 of 2 for Pace Egg, Calder High School|website=BBC|accessdate=10 June 2025}}</ref>

==All-through school== Calder High School is federated with Calder Primary School under the title of The Calder Learning Trust.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.calderlearningtrust.com/|title=Welcome - Calder Learning Trust|website=www.calderlearningtrust.com|accessdate=12 February 2022}}</ref> This means that technically it is an all-through school educating pupils aged 4 to 16. However, while management and administration is shared, both schools continue to operate with separate identities.

==Alumni== * Josh Fenton-Glynn, Member of Parliament * Kirk Barker, actor * Dario Coates, actor * Geoff Crowther, guidebook writer * Stuart Fielden, former professional rugby league footballer * Jessica Harris, actress * Thomas Nelstrop, actor, comedian, and voiceover artist * Lindsay Rimer, victim of unsolved murder in 1994 * Robert Scott, professional cyclist and former u23 British Champion

===Hebden Bridge Grammar School=== * Paul Barker, broadcaster, editor from 1968-86 of ''New Society'' * Walter Beaumont, flying ace with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War * Sir Bernard Ingham, journalist and former civil servant * Graham Richardson, former British bobsleigh pilot, former Canadian bobsleigh driver coach, head coach of the British Bobsleigh team

==Accreditation== * Technology College * Training School

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://calderlearningtrust.com Calder Learning Trust website]

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Category:Secondary schools in Calderdale Category:Educational institutions established in 1952 Category:Foundation schools in West Yorkshire Category:1952 establishments in England Category:Specialist technology colleges in England Category:Mytholmroyd