Dearne Advanced Learning Centre (Dearne High School until 2011) is a non-denominational, mixed sex, specialist Humanities College in the Dearne Valley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The secondary school was previously known as Dearneside Secondary Modern and then Dearneside Comprehensive School until its merger with Thurnscoe Comprehensive School to create The Dearne High School. It received specialist humanities status in 2008 making it The Dearne High - a Specialist Humanities College. New school building were constructed during 2010 next to the existing school for £29 million as part of Barnsley Council's "Building Schools for the Future" project, and the new site opened in January 2011 as "The Dearne ALC".