North Huddersfield Trust School

North Huddersfield Trust School (formerly Fartown High School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the Fartown area of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.^[1]

North Huddersfield Trust School
Location
Woodhouse Hall Road Fartown Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , HD2 1DJ England
Coordinates	53.6659°N 1.7697°W / 53.6659; -1.7697
Information
Type	Foundation school
Local authority	Kirklees
Department for Education URN	136502 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Andrew Fell
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	899 as of January 2023[update]
Website	http://www.bbgacademy.com/

Previously a community school administered by Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council, in September 2011 Fartown High School was formally closed and replaced with North Huddersfield Trust School on the same site. The school is now administered by North Huddersfield Trust.^[2] The Trust's lead educational partner is Holmfirth High School. The other partners are Kirklees College, the University of Huddersfield and Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council.^[3]

North Huddersfield Trust School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, as well as some vocational courses offered in conjunction with Kirklees College.^[4] The school also has an adult education provision for the local community.^[5]

Former teachers

Fartown High School

• Ken George, physics teacher, taught for eight years, and a county 800m champion,^[6] from Longwood, a former British Polytechnic Sports Association champion,^[7] known for the 1997 Boddingtons ice cream van advert with Melanie Sykes