Penwortham Girls' High School

53°44′53″N 2°43′41″W / 53.74801°N 2.72813°W / 53.74801; -2.72813InformationTypeCommunity schoolEstablished1954Local authorityLancashireDepartment for Education URN119765 TablesOfstedReportsHeadteacherSharon HallGenderGirlsAge11 to 16Enrolment775 as of April 2022^[update]Websitehttp://www.penworthamgirls.lancs.sch.uk/

Penwortham Girls' High School is a secondary school located in Penwortham in the English county of Lancashire.^[1]

Established in 1954 as Penwortham Girls' Grammar School, today it is a community school administered by Lancashire County Council,^[2] and is one of two non-selective, non-fee paying girls’ school in Lancashire.

Penwortham Girls' High School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.^[3] The school also offers The Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme as an extra-curricular activity.^[4]

Notable former pupils

• Miss Polly Rae, singer
• Joanna Riding, actress

Penwortham Girls' Grammar School

• Dame Sue Ion FREng, President from 2004 to 2006 of the British Nuclear Energy Society (became the Nuclear Institute in 2009)
• Ruth Mercer, Headmistress since 2009 of Godolphin and Latymer School
• Dame Karen Pierce CMG, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations from January 2018, now British Ambassador to the United States
• Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS, Vice-Chancellor since 2010 of the University of Manchester, President from 2009 to 2014 of the Royal Society of Biology
• Prof Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History since 2011 at Queen Mary University of London

References

External links

• Penwortham Girls' High School official website