Byrchall High School

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Byrchall High School
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Address
Byrchall High School
Warrington Road

, ,
WN4 9PQ

England
Coordinates 53°28′53″N2°38′27″W / 53.4813°N 2.6409°W / 53.4813; -2.6409
Information
Type Academy
MottoLIVE TO LEARN, LEARN TO LIVE!!
Established1588;436 years ago (1588)
Local authority Wigan
SpecialistMathematics and English
Department for Education URN 138699 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherA.R. Birchall
Gender Mixed
Age11to 16
Enrolment1131
Former nameAshton-in-Makerfield Grammar School
Website http://www.byrchall.wigan.sch.uk

Byrchall High School is a secondary school and specialist mathematics and English school with academy status, in the Ashton-in-Makerfield area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.

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Admissions

It has a mixed intake of both boys and girls aged 1116. The current pupil population is approximately 1,200. The current headteacher is Alan Birchall. Byrchall High School is one of three secondary schools in Ashton, the other two being St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, next to Byrchall High School, and Cansfield High School.

The school is situated between the A49 and the M6 on the southern edge of the Wigan borough, neighbouring St Helens.

History

Grammar school

The school was founded in 1588 as Ashton Grammar School by Robert Byrchall on land donated by wealthy local land owner William Gerrard. The original building in Seneley Green is now Garswood Library. Through the school, Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School Old Boys F.C. (now known as Ashtonians AFC) entered the Lancashire Amateur Football League in 1951.

After the Second World War a prisoner-of-war camp for Germans, POW Camp 50, operated at its site. One of its inmates was footballer Bert Trautmann who was confined there until 1948. [1]

In 1960, Lancashire Education Committee proposed to amalgamate the school with Upholland Grammar School when the school had around 450 pupils. The school was administered by Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council from April 1974. By 1973 the school had 700 pupils and 800 by 1975.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive school in 1978.

Academy

The school became an academy on 1 October 2012.

Alumni

Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School

Byrchall High School

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