Levenshulme High School for Girls, also known as Levenshulme High School, is a girls'
secondary school
A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...
with
academy status located in the
Levenshulme
Levenshulme () is an area of Manchester, England, bordering Fallowfield, Longsight, Gorton, Burnage, Heaton Chapel and Reddish; it is approximately halfway between Stockport and Manchester city centre on the A6. Levenshulme is predominantly re ...
area of
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
, 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
Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council is the local authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. Manchester is the sixth largest city in England by population. Its city council is composed of 96 councillors, three ...
, 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
Coronation Street
''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.
Origi ...
, as Weatherfield Comprehensive
Notable former pupils
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Dorothy Bromiley
Dorothy Bromiley Phelan (born 18 September 1930) is a British former film, stage and television actress and authority on historic domestic needlework.
Life
Born in Manchester, Lancashire, the only child of Frank Bromiley and Ada Winifred (né ...
, actress
*
Pat Kirkwood, actress
*
Beryl Reid
Beryl Elizabeth Reid, (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996), was a British actress of stage and screen. She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for ''The Killing of Sister George'', the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performan ...
, actress
References
4. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0185102/locations?ref_=m_tt_dt_loc
External links
Levenshulme High School official website
Secondary schools in Manchester
Girls' schools in Greater Manchester
Academies in Manchester
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