Stanney Comprehensive School In March 1985 at 1am, a fire caused £60,000 of damage to the sixth form block. Ellesmere Port was known for school vandalism. Five fire engines from Ellesmere Port and Chester fought the fire for 90 minutes.
Sutton High School/Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts SHS was originally split into two, a boys school and a girls school, in common with many schools at the time. The two schools were later merged, and the school buildings were split into five 'blocks': :
Red Tower Home to Languages, R.E., Geography, History & the Sixth Form Common room :
Blue Tower Home to Mathematics :
Yellow Block. Home to Science. An extra block was built at the end of Yellow Block as the English Department, after the old English block was sold off to a private company. :
Green Block Home to Woodwork, Metalwork, Engineering, Graphical Design, Art, Cookery, Business Studies, Media Studies and I.T. :
The Older Original Section Of The School, which doubled as the exam hall & was the traditional home of both English and the
performing arts lessons that have given the school its current name, part of the building was sold to create a privately owned business centre. English corridor. Home to English The school had a
swing band which in 1995, 2006, 2009, 2012 successfully toured Germany, appearing on German radio and television in the process. In 2006, Sutton High School was awarded specialist
Arts College status, and then became Ellesmere Port Specialist School of Performing Arts.
Stanney High School/Cheshire Oaks High School COHS was founded as Stanney High School in 1947. In the 2000s it became a Specialist Sports College. ==Whitby Road site==