Levenshulme High School for Girls, also known as Levenshulme High School, is a girls'

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with academy status located in the

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area of

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, England.

History

The school was opened by the Duchess of Atholl in 1929. The school previously had two sites, a lower school for pupils in their first two years on Moseley Road, and an upper school on the current site, the sites merged in 1986. The lower school was previously Moseley Road School

Recent history

The school moved into a new building on the same site in 2011 with the original building being refurbished and reoccupied from 2012. Previously a community school administered by

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, Levenshulme High School converted to academy status on 1 September 2014 and is now forms part of a multi-academy trust with Whalley Range High School. The school has been used on well known Manchester based TV shows such as Queer as Folk, and in several episodes of

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, as Weatherfield Comprehensive

Notable former pupils

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, actress

References

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External links

Levenshulme High School official website
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