The current single site West Derby School on West Derby Road, opened its doors in September 2010 and was officially opened by Labour MP Rt. Hon. Stephen Twigg at a gala ceremony on the 19th November 2010.

Prior to this date, the school was based on two sites on Quarry and Bankfield Roads.  These building were demolished early in 2011.

Below pictures and details of the original school opening back in 1957

Mr H.S Magnay (Liverpool Director of Education) shows invited guests features of the new school

The post-war 'baby-boom' resulted in a much higher number of teenage children in the 1950s.  Liverpool Corporation embarked on a massive school building programme, of which our old two school sites were part.

West Derby High School was opened in September 1957 by the first Head Teacher who was Mr A.L Casson.  The school was designed by Liverpool Architects Harold E Davies and Sons to house 540 boys. Harold E Davies died in 1952, so it is unlikely that he was involved with the plans, his son Harold Hinchcliffe probably designed the building which took about two years to complete.

Bankfield Secondary Modern School was opened in September 1959.  It was designed by Rimmer Brothers Limited to house 400 boys. Originally West Derby was designed to be used in collaboration with nearby Holly Lodge girls school, and in 1984 there were unsuccessful plans to merge the two schools into one.

Bankfield Secondary Modern School - 1959

The first ever 'official' mention of our school, Council Meeting Minutes from 1954