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Penwortham Girls' High School

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Established
  
1954

Headteacher
  
Mrs Karen Pomeroy

DfE URN
  
119765 Tables

Founded
  
1954

Type
  
Community school

DfE number
  
888/4332

Phone
  
+44 1772 743399

Local authority
  
Lancashire County Council

Location
  
Cop LanePenworthamLancashirePR1 0SREngland

Address
  
Cop Ln, Penwortham, Preston PR1 0SR, UK

Similar
  
Penworth Priory Academy, All Hallows Catholic High Sch, Archbishop Temple School, Lostock Hall Academy, Our Lady's Catholic High Sch

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Penwortham Girls' High School is a secondary school located in Penwortham in the English county of Lancashire.

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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

    Penwortham Girls' High School Wikipedia
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