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Established1959 ReligionRoman Catholic FoundersDe La Salle Brothers Number of students1,035 FounderDe La Salle Brothers
TypeVoluntary aided school HeadteacherMr A Bridson Phone+44 161 643 4009 Founded1959
LocationRochdale Road
Stanycliffe
Middleton
Greater Manchester
M24 2GL
England Address1 Rochdale Rd, Middleton, Manchester M24 2GL, UK Local authorityRochdale Metropolitan Borough Council SimilarMiddleton 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.
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.
Cardinal Langley RC Grammar School
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