Little Lever School | |
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Church Street , BL3 1BT | |
Coordinates | 53°33′42″N2°23′03″W / 53.5617°N 2.3843°W |
Information | |
Type | Academy |
Local authority | Bolton |
Department for Education URN | 142296 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Dom McKeon |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 11to 16 |
Website | https://www.little-lever.bolton.sch.uk/ |
Little Lever School is a mixed secondary school located in Little Lever in the English county of Greater Manchester. [1]
Little Lever school was previously a community school with a specialism in Business and Enterprise that was administered by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council. However Little Lever School converted to academy status in December 2015 and is judged by Ofsted as 'Good' . The school offers GCSEs, BTECs and ASDAN courses as programmes of study for pupils.
Little Lever School coordinates with Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council for admissions, and the main feeder primary schools are Bowness Primary School, Masefield Primary School, Mytham Primary School, St Matthew's CE Primary School, St Stephen's & All Martyrs CE Primary School and St Teresa's RC Primary School. [2]
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider borough, of which Bolton is the administrative centre. The town is also within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire.
The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, named after its largest town, Bolton, but covering a larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley, Westhoughton, and part of the West Pennine Moors. It had a population of 296,041 in 2021, making it the third-most populous district in Greater Manchester.
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The first elections to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 69 seat council - three seats for each of the 23 wards - up for vote. It was the first council election as the newly formed metropolitan borough under a new constitution. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the County Borough of Bolton, the Municipal Borough of Farnworth, the Urban Districts of Blackrod, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Lever, and Westhoughton, and the southern part of Turton Urban District on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.
Bolton St Catherine's Academy is a mixed Church of England all-through school. The school is located in the Breightmet area of Bolton in the English county of Greater Manchester.
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