Byrchall High School

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Byrchall High School
Address
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Warrington Road Ashton-in-Makerfield , Greater Manchester , WN4 9PQ England
Coordinates	53°28′53″N 2°38′27″W / 53.4813°N 2.6409°W / 53.4813; -2.6409Coordinates: 53°28′53″N 2°38′27″W / 53.4813°N 2.6409°W / 53.4813; -2.6409
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Live to Learn, Learn to Live
Established	1588; 433 years ago (1588)
Local authority	Wigan
Specialist	Mathematics and Computing
Department for Education URN	138699 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Mr A.R. Birchall
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	1131
Former name	Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School
Website	http://www.byrchall.wigan.sch.uk

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

Admissions[]

It has a mixed intake of both boys and girls aged 11–16. 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.

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.

Academic performance[]

The school's pupils generally obtain above-average GCSE results; one of the few schools in Wigan LEA to achieve this which is not a faith school.^{[citation needed]}

Alumni[]

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Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School[]

• Sir George Bishop CB OBE, Chairman from 1972-79 of Booker-McConnell, President from 1957-58 of the International Sugar Council, President from 1983-87 of the Royal Geographical Society
• Prof Rodney Robert Porter FRS, biochemist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of antibodies, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry from 1967-85 at the University of Oxford
• Sir John Randall FRS, physicist who invented the cavity magnetron, currently found in microwave ovens

Byrchall High School[]

• , Chairman in 2007 of the British Society of Magazine Editors, and Editor from 2005-15 of Grazia and from 2001-01 of Eve

References[]

• OFSTED Report

External links[]

• School Website
• EduBase^{[permanent dead link]}