Sharples School is a

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

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located in the Sharples area of

Bolton Bolton (, locally ) is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, formerly a part of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area i ...

in the

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Greater Manchester Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...

. Established in 1974, the School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014. Previously a community school administered by

Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council Bolton Council, also called Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is a Metropolitan Borough Council, one of ten in Greater Manchester and one of 36 in t ...

, in June 2016 Sharples School converted to academy status. The school continues to coordinate with Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council for admissions. Sharples School offers

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, BTECs and the CiDA as programmes of study for pupils. The school also has a specialism in

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and

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References

External links

Sharples School official website
Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton Educational institutions established in 1974 1974 establishments in England Academies in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton {{GreaterManchester-school-stub