Worthing High School is a secondary school with academy status located in Worthing, West Sussex. It caters to academic years 7-11 and has over 1050 students on roll. It was rated as good by OFSTED in its last inspection.
History
The school has its origins as the Bedford Row Pupil teacher centre, a private school for girls, in January 1905. Within two years, it also took school leavers other than pupil teachers. The school was taken over by the local council in 1909, moving to its current site in 1914. It operated at a girls school on this site, with a junior house in Shelly Road between 1918 and 1930, The school became co-educational in 1982 when it merged with West Tarring Secondary School for boys, then becoming known by its current name. The school converted to academy status in December 2012. From 2015 it became a standard secondary school accepting its first cohort of Year 7 students since the 1973 reorganisation following the change in the age of transfer in Worthing. The school has been rated "good" with outstanding areas on its previous OFSTED inspection in April 2016. ==Notable alumni==
Notable alumni
File:MickFarren.jpg|Mick Farren, Singer and founder of The Deviants File:Billy Idol Lucca 2023.jpg|Billy Idol, Grammy winning recording artist File:Emerson, Lake & Palmer 07.jpg|Keith Emerson, Member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer and The Nice, nicknamed "The greatest keyboarist in Rock history" File:Russ Cook, the Hardest Geezer, in 2024 (cropped).jpg|Russ Cook, the first man to run the entire length of Africa. ==Notable faculty==
Notable faculty
• Nick Hallard - English artist known for his pub signs. ==References==