Devonport High School for Boys
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| Motto | Prorsum Semper Honeste — Forward always honest/proud |
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| Established | 1896 |
| Type |
Grammar school Academy |
| Headteacher | Dan Roberts |
| Founder | Alonzo Rider |
| Location |
Paradise Road Devonport, Plymouth Devon PL1 5QP England Coordinates: 50°22′27″N 4°09′44″W / 50.374071°N 4.162273°W |
| DfE URN | 136496 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Staff | over 100 |
| Students | 1,135 |
| Gender | Boys (Mixed sixth form) |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses |
Campbell Edison Newton Priestley Smeaton Winstanley |
| Colours | Green and white |
| Former pupils | Old DHSians |
| Website | www |
Devonport High School for Boys is a grammar school and academy, for boys aged 11 to 18, in Plymouth, Devon, England. It has around 1,135 pupils. Its catchment area includes southwest Devon and southeast Cornwall as well as Plymouth. Pupils are accepted on the basis of academic aptitude.
The school was founded by Alonzo Rider on Albert Road, Devonport, in January 1896 to meet the needs of boys in Plymouth and district seeking a career in the Navy, as engineers and civil servants.
In 1906, the Devonport Borough Council took over the school and over the next thirty years it continued to teach boys who came from the city or in by train from the Tamar Valley and Cornwall. Old Boys went on to careers both locally and nationally – and especially in the MoD. In 1941 the school was evacuated to Penzance because of World War II and in 1945 returned to the present site, the former Stoke Military Hospital on Paradise Road, which had been built in 1797. A book by former student and teacher Henry Whitfield called A Torch in Flame, chronicles the history of the school from its founding to the death of headmaster Dr Cresswell in 1974. Since 1904, there has also been an annual school magazine made by pupils with the purpose of keeping students, parents and Old Boys informed about developments and information concerning the school.
In 2002, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) designated the school as one of the first four specialist engineering colleges in England. In 2006, it was judged to be a High Performing Specialist School (HPSS) and rebid successfully for a second 4-year period of Engineering Specialism. In April 2007, it took up a second specialism in languages. After the OFSTED inspection in October 2007, the school successfully gained redesignation for Engineering and, with its HPSS status re-affirmed, successfully applied a third specialism "Applied Learning" which commenced during 2009. This specialism encouraged subject teaching to make reference to relevance in the world of work.
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