Cottingham High School is a secondary school in Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The school has specialist Arts College status, with facilities for media arts, music, drama and dance for performing arts. In July 2011 the school became an Academy.

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Cottingham High School
Address
Harland Way Cottingham , East Riding of Yorkshire , HU16 5PX England
Coordinates	53.7890°N 0.4321°W / 53.7890; -0.4321
Information
Type	Secondary school Academy
Established	1955
Specialist	Arts
Department for Education URN	136921 Tables
Head teacher	Jay Kirby
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,429 pupils
Website	http://www.cottinghamhigh.net/

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Cottingham High School was originally named Cottingham Secondary School and was established in 1955 as a Secondary Modern school. The school site is on what was formerly Cottingham Grange, built in 1802. Part of the land which belonged to Cottingham Grange is now part of 'The Lawns', owned by the University of Hull for student halls of residence.

Because of the increased numbers of pupils attending the school, the original building was no longer large enough, and by September 1975 a new Science and Technical block was completed together with a second gymnasium and new sports hall. In 1978 a new Humanities and Modern Languages block and a Sixth Form block was completed. In 2000 a new Drama and Music block was built, and a Business Studies block was completed in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2004 Cottingham High School gained Specialist in Media and Performing Arts status, which provided extra equipment and facilities, including a recording studio, film editing suite and ICT facilities.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2009 the school became part of the Haltemprice Consortium along with Wolfreton School and Hessle High School.^[1]

In July 2011 the secondary school became an Academy.^{[2][failed verification]}

In March 2012 Elizabeth Logan was suspended from her post as head of the school.^[3] She resigned from her post due to "personal and professional reasons" on 21 August 2012.^[4]

In May 2015 the school received a Grade 3 'Requires Improvement' rating from Ofsted.^[5]

• Stuart Pearson - professional footballer, England international and retired Football coach^{[citation needed]}
• Ben Pipes - London 2012 Team GB Men's Volleyball Team Captain.^{[6][failed verification]}
• Dave Stead - drummer with UK band the Beautiful South^{[citation needed]}
• Will Rhodes- England U19 Cricket Team Captain.^[7]