Bootle High School started as Bootle Grammar School For Boys.  Bootle Grammar was based at Balliol Road, Bootle (where the new Hugh Baird annex now stands) until 1961 when it moved to a new site at Marian Way in Netherton.  One of the main reasons for the move was that staff had to take PE classes three miles to the nearest available playing fields near where the Girobank building now stands.  The Marian Way site had playing fields surrounding the main building so was an ideal location for this reason alone.

In 1973 Warwick Bolam Secondary School, based on Glovers Lane, merged with Bootle Grammar School to become Warwick Bolam High School.   The school resided on two sites until until 1983 when Warwick Bolam High School merged with The Countess Of Derby, based at Browns Lane.  The name was then changed to Bootle High School. 

Our school badge also has a historic local connection to the old Bootle coat of arms.  

For two years the school was based on three sites until in 1985 the council decided to use the Glovers Lane site to build a community centre, now known as the Netherton Activity Centre.  The school was back to two sites again until 1991.  The school moved to Browns Lane after spending over 3 million pounds on improving and extending the building.

The school now caters for around 700 pupils between the ages of 11 to 16 years old.