Westborough High School
Address
Stockhill Street Dewsbury , West Yorkshire , WF13 2JE England
Coordinates	53°41′36″N 1°38′50″W / 53.6933°N 1.6473°W / 53.6933; -1.6473
Information
Type	Foundation school
Local authority	Kirklees
Department for Education URN	107775 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Jennifer Napper
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 16
Website	http://www.w-h-s.org.uk/

Westborough High School is a mixed secondary school located in Westborough, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on Oxford Road, and shares its grounds with St John Fisher Catholic High School. The school was founded in the 1960s and has had close links with the other nearby secondary schools. The current (2013) headteacher of Westborough is Jennifer Napper

The school admits pupils from the ages of 11–16. Its catchment areas are Ravensthorpe, Savile Town and the local areas of Boothroyd.

Over the past 5 years the school's music department, in the new performing arts block at Westborough, has developed a public profile with concerts performed by pupils in the summer and winter. Bands originating at Westborough are the Samba Band and Drumline, which have performed in Batley Park, York and on Sky TV during a rugby match.^{[citation needed]}

Westborough High School achieved the third successive year of record rises in GCSE results,^[when?] with 54% of pupils gaining 5 or more GCSE passes at A* to C, and 34% of these being in English and Maths, a 6% rise on last year, exceeding a 30% target set by the Government.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011 Birkdale High School was formally closed, with Westborough High School taking over its site. Some pupils from Birkdale transferred to the Westborough campus immdemiately. However the former Birkdale High School campus was still used to educate a number of pupils under Westborough High School management, and renamed as the Halifax Road Campus. The Halifax Road Campus closed down when the final set of year 11 students finished their GCSEs in 2014.^[1]