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Byrchall High School

Field	Value
name	Byrchall High School
image	Byrchall High School.jpg
coordinates
motto	LIVE TO LEARN, LEARN TO LIVE!!
established
type	Academy
head	Phil Paul
specialist	Mathematics and English
address	Warrington Road
city	Ashton-in-Makerfield
county	Greater Manchester
country	England
postcode	WN4 9PQ
local_authority	Wigan
ofsted	yes
urn	138699
enrolment	1131
gender	Mixed
lower_age	11
upper_age	16
free_label_1	Former name
free_1	Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School
website	https://www.byrchall.wigan.sch.uk

Byrchall High School is a secondary school and specialist mathematics and English school with academy status, in Ashton-in-Makerfield within 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 Phil Paul. 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 Haydock in the borough of 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 Gerard. 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.

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

Seneley Green Grammar School

Saint Edmund Bryan Arrowsmith, (1585 – 28 August 1628)

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

Jane Bruton, Chairman in 2007 of the British Society of Magazine Editors, and Editor from 2005-15 of Grazia and from 2001-01 of Eve
Lewis Hancox, graphic novelist, social media personality and filmmaker
Lemn Sissay, writer and broadcaster
Kym Marsh, actress, presenter and singer

References

OFSTED Report

References

https://www.wigantoday.net/education/new-chapter-begins-at-byrchall-5341737
James, ''The Official Manchester City Hall of Fame'', p. 135.

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