Loreto High School, Chorlton

Loreto High School
Address
Nell Lane Manchester , M21 7SW England
Coordinates	53°26′02″N2°15′44″W / 53.4338°N 2.2621°W / 53.4338; -2.2621
Information
Type	Voluntary aided comprehensive
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	c. 1960s 2007 (present school)
Local authority	Manchester City Council
Department for Education URN	105574 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Catherine Hughes (Formerly Peter Tite)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11to 16
Enrolment	750~
Website	http://www.loretochorlton.co.uk

Loreto High School is a coeducational Catholic high school in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. It was the first IBVM (Loreto Sisters) school to be coeducational from the very beginning and the first Loreto secondary school in the area since Loreto College was reduced to a sixth form college during the 1970s. Since 2023, it has been a European Parliament Ambassador School. ^[1]

History

Loreto High School was originally St Thomas Aquinas High School, formerly Marist High School, a girls' grammar school founded during the 1960s. ^[2] Prior to the rebranding, St Thomas Aquinas had a poor reputation in the community and was one of the worst performing schools in the UK. It came under the trusteeship of the Loreto Sisters and was renamed Loreto High School in 2007. ^{[3] [4]}

Academics

Since the renaming, the school's academic performance has improved. It was rated "outstanding" and "good" in all aspects at the 2010 Diocesan inspection report ^[5] and has been commended by Ofsted for "good practice" in its teaching. ^[6]

In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the school, along with all of the schools in the UK and abroad, was shut until further notice, leaving students into home learning. Due to their GCSEs being cancelled, the Year 11 students left the school three months earlier.

References

1. Ward, Julie (2 September 2023). "European Parliament Ambassador Schools programme raises hope in Manchester". North West Bylines. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
2. About Us Archived 2013-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
3. "Parents fight for places at school that got tough". Manchester Evening News. 8 February 2010.
4. "New name spells big future for high school". Manchester Evening News. 3 May 2007.
5. Diocese of Salford Section 48 Inspection ^{[ permanent dead link ]}
6. "Good practice resource - Good progress in mathematics for groups that often underperform nationally: Loreto High School Chorlton". Ofsted. 28 November 2012.

External links

• School website
• Profile on Catholic Education Service
• St Thomas Aquinas RC High School