Established 1959 Religion Roman Catholic Founders De La Salle Brothers Number of students 1,035 Founder De La Salle Brothers | Headteacher Mr A Bridson Phone +44 161 643 4009 Founded 1959 | |
Location Rochdale RoadStanycliffeMiddletonGreater ManchesterM24 2GLEngland Similar Middleton Technolo School, FPHS (Falinge Park High, Saint Anne's Academy, Matthew Moss High School, Siddal Moor Sports Co | ||
The Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Middleton, Greater Manchester for ages 11–18. The school is named for Thomas Langley, a 15th-century prelate who hailed from Middleton.
Contents
Location
Cardinal Langley school is on Rochdale Road (A664), around one mile from the end of the Middleton spur of the A627(M). Hopwood Hall College and Hopwood Clough Nature Reserve are nearby to the north-west.
Grammar school
It opened under the supervision of the De La Salle Brothers in September 1959 as a grammar school with the first two years, gradually increasing year by year. The second year students were drawn from existing grammar schools in the area.
In the second year of existence the building work had not been completed and hence students attended on a half day basis. It was administered by Lancashire Education Committee and by 1967 had 780 boys. In 1974, it was taken over by the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. Since then, the number of De La Salle brothers teaching at the school reduced and by the early 1990s all Lasallian brothers had left.
Comprehensive
It became a comprehensive in the late 1970s.
Academic performance
An Ofsted inspection undertaken on 22 April 2015 judged the school to be "Requires Improvement", however the school attained "good" in 3 out of 5 inspected areas, including the sixth form college.
It gets GCSE results slightly above average, but at A-level it performs better, receiving the best results in Rochdale LEA.