Penwortham Girls' High School

Penwortham Girls' High School is a secondary school located in Penwortham in the English county of Lancashire.^[1]

Penwortham Girls' High School
Address
Cop Lane Penwortham Lancashire , PR1 0SR England
Coordinates	53°44′53″N 2°43′41″W / 53.74801°N 2.72813°W / 53.74801; -2.72813
Information
Type	Community school
Established	1954
Local authority	Lancashire
Department for Education URN	119765 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Mrs Karen Pomeroy
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	775 as of April 2022^[update]
Website	http://www.penworthamgirls.lancs.sch.uk/

Established in 1954 as Penwortham Girls' Grammar School, today it is a community school administered by Lancashire County Council,^[2] and is one of two non-selective, non-fee paying girls’ school in Lancashire.

Penwortham Girls' High School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.^[3] The school also offers The Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme as an extra-curricular activity.^[4]

Notable former pupils

• Miss Polly Rae, singer
• Joanna Riding, actress

Penwortham Girls' Grammar School

• Dame Sue Ion FREng, President from 2004 to 2006 of the British Nuclear Energy Society (became the Nuclear Institute in 2009)
• Ruth Mercer, Headmistress since 2009 of Godolphin and Latymer School
• Dame Karen Pierce CMG, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations from January 2018, now British Ambassador to the United States
• Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS, Vice-Chancellor since 2010 of the University of Manchester, President from 2009 to 2014 of the Royal Society of Biology
• Prof Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History since 2011 at Queen Mary University of London

References

1. "Penwortham Girls High School". Retrieved 7 April 2017.
2. "Penwortham Girls' High School - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk.
3. "Curriculum".
4. "Extra Curricular Activities".

External links

• Penwortham Girls' High School official website