Penwortham Girls' High School

Penwortham Girls' High School
Established	1954
Type	Community school
Headteacher	Mrs Karen Pomeroy
Location	Cop Lane Penwortham Lancashire PR1 0SR England
Local authority	Lancashire
DfE number	888/4332
DfE URN	119765 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Girls
Ages	11–16
Website	School website

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

References

↑ http://www.penworthamgirls.lancs.sch.uk/

External links

Penwortham Girls' High School official website

Schools in Lancashire

Primary schools	Maharishi School

Secondary schools	Academy@Worden Accrington Academy Albany Academy Alder Grange Community School All Hallows RC High School All Saints' RC School Archbishop Temple School Ashton Community Science College Balshaw's CE High School Baines School Bishop Rawstorne CE Academy Blessed Trinity RC College Bowland High Broughton High School Brownedge St Mary's RC High School Burnley High School Burscough Priory Science College Cardinal Allen Catholic High School Carnforth High School Carr Hill High School Central Lancaster High School Christ the King RC High School Colne Park High School Colne Primet Academy Corpus Christi RC High School Fearns Community School Fleetwood High School Fulwood Academy Garstang Community Academy Haslingden High School Hameldon Community College Heysham High School Hodgson Academy The Hollins Technology College Holy Cross RC High School Hutton Grammar School Lathom High School Leyland St Mary's RC High School Longridge High School Lostock Hall Academy Lytham St. Annes High School Maharishi School Marsden Heights Community College Millfield High School Moor Park High School Morecambe High School Mount Carmel RC High School Norden High School Ormskirk School Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College Our Lady's Catholic College Our Lady's Catholic High School Parklands High School Pendle Vale College Penwortham Girls' High School Penwortham Priory Academy Preston Muslim Girls High School Rhyddings Business and Enterprise School Ribblesdale High School Ripley St Thomas CE High School St Aidan's CE Technology College St Augustine's RC High School St Bede's, Lytham St Annes St Bede's, Ormskirk St Cecilia's RC High School St Christopher's CE High School St Michael's CE High School Ss John Fisher and Thomas More RC High School Shuttleworth College Sir John Thursby Community College Southlands High School Tarleton Academy Unity College Up Holland High School UTC Lancashire Walton-Le-Dale High School Wellfield High School West Craven High School Whitworth Community High School

Grammar schools	Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Lancaster Girls' Grammar School Lancaster Royal Grammar School

Independent schools	Arnold KEQMS Ashbridge School Heathland School Kirkham Grammar School Moorland School Oakhill College Rossall School St Annes College Grammar School Scarisbrick Hall School Stonyhurst College

Further education	Accrington and Rossendale College Burnley College Cardinal Newman College Lancashire College Lancaster and Morecambe College Nelson and Colne College Preston's College Runshaw College

Culture and infrastructure of the Borough of South Ribble

Transport

Blackpool to Liverpool Line Blue Bus of Penwortham Manchester to Preston Line East Lancashire Line First TransPennine Express Preston park and ride Lancaster Canal Tramroad

Railway stations	Bamber Bridge Leyland Lostock Hall

Disused stations	Farington Hoole Longton Bridge Midge Hall New Longton and Hutton Penwortham Cop Lane Todd Lane Junction

Education

Sport

History

Business

Enterprise plc

Media

The Bee

Politics

Council elections 1999 2003 07 11 Idle Toad

Constituencies	South Ribble Ribble Valley

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