Penwortham Girls' High School
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Penwortham Girls' High School | |
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Cop Lane , PR1 0SR | |
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Type | Community school |
Established | 1954 |
Local authority | Lancashire |
Department for Education URN | 119765 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Mrs Karen Pomeroy |
Gender | Girls |
Age | 11 to 16 |
Website | http://www.penworthamgirls.lancs.sch.uk/ |
Penwortham Girls' High School is a secondary school located in Penwortham in the English county of Lancashire.[1]
Established in 1954 as Penwortham Girls' Grammar School, today it is a community school administered by Lancashire County Council, and is the only non-selective, non-fee paying girls’ school in Lancashire.
Notable former pupils
- Miss Polly Rae, singer
- Joanna Riding, actress
Penwortham Girls' Grammar School
- Dame Sue Ion FREng, President from 2004-06 of the British Nuclear Energy Society (became the Nuclear Institute in 2009)
- Ruth Mercer, Headmistress since 2009 of Godolphin and Latymer School
- Karen Pierce CMG, Ambassador since May 2015 to Afghanistan
- Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS, Vice-Chancellor since 2010 of the University of Manchester, President from 2009-14 of the Royal Society of Biology
- Prof Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History since 2011 at Queen Mary University of London
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