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St Augustine of Canterbury RC High Specialist Humanities School was a Roman Catholic high school for 11- to 16-year-olds, located in Werneth within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England under the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford The Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford is centred on the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. The diocese was founded in 1852 as one of the first post-Reformation Catholic dioceses in Great Britain. Since 1911 it has formed part of th ...
. The school was a specialist school in the Humanities, and comprised 650 students. The school was previously known as St. Anselm's before it merged with another Oldham school (St Albans) in the late 1980s. The school, was closed as the result of amalgamation on Aug. 31, 2011. It merged with Our Lady's RC High School to form Blessed John Henry Newman RC College. The new school is on a site in
Chadderton Chadderton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk and Rochdale Canal. It is located in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Oldham, south of Rochdale and north-east of Manchester. Hi ...
and St. Augustine's vacated buildings were demolished in 2013. The last headteacher of St. Augustine's, Mr Michael McGhee, became the first headteacher of the new school. The final
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report (2009) indicated that the school was 'satisfactory' and had a 'good capacity for sustained improvement


Notable former pupils

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– actor * Mark Owen – singer-songwriter, member of Take That * Lee Rourke – novelist


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Augustine of Canterbury Roman Catholic High School Defunct Catholic schools in the Diocese of Salford Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Educational institutions disestablished in 2011 2011 disestablishments in England Schools in Oldham