Denbigh High School, Luton
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| Motto | High achievement for all is our shared responsibility. |
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| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Colin Townsend |
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Alexandra Avenue Luton Bedfordshire LU3 1HE England Coordinates: 51°53′29″N 0°25′31″W / 51.89136°N 0.42530°W |
| DfE number | 821/4104 |
| DfE URN | 136319 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 1120 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | www |
Denbigh High School is an academy school in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, with Colin Townsend as Headteacher following Dame Yasmin Bevan's retirement as Executive Principal and Headteacher at the end of 2014.
The school has approximately 1120 students between the ages of 11 and 16 and the school became an academy in 2010. Its partner school, Challney High School for Boys (also within Luton) became a National Teaching School in July 2011 and Denbigh High School is their strategic partner. As their partner and a lead member of the Challenge Partnership Denbigh High School plays a significant role in the training and professional development of teachers, support staff and headteachers from across the UK.
Denbigh High School is also an NCSL Leadership Development School and through this work it helps to develop future leaders. Before becoming an academy, the school was designated a specialist sports college in 2005, and with this came a major upgrade to many of the school’s facilities including a new sports hall, dance studio and artificial turf football pitch. Denbigh High School has a wide range of sporting facilities which are also open to the local community in the evening and at weekends.
Denbigh High School won the 'TES Secondary School of the Year Award' in 2009 and became an academy in 2010 as well as becoming a strategic partner of Chiltern Teaching School Alliance, with Challney High School for Boys.
In 2013, Denbigh High School became part of The Chiltern Learning Trust which is a multi-academy trust comprising Denbigh High School, Challney High School for Boys and Dallow Primary School. The Trust is led by a Board of Trustees which consists of representatives from all three schools with Adrian Rogers as Chief Executive. Each school also has its own local governing body.
As of circa 2012, 71% of Denbigh students identified as being Bangladeshi British and/or Pakistani British, and 79% of the students were Muslim.
Circa 2012 Anastasia Vakulenko, the author of Islamic Veiling in Legal Discourse, wrote that Denbigh High "was considered to be a multicultural success story, as it had transformed from an underachieving school into one of the best in the region within years."
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