Horwich - Education

Education

See also: List of schools in Bolton

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company built the Railway Mechanics Institute in 1888. It became the Technical College but has been demolished.

Horwich secondary school students years attend either Rivington and Blackrod High School, a Specialist Technology College which was originally the Rivington & Blackrod Grammar School on a site in Rivington close to the boundary with Horwich, or St Joseph's RC High School and Sports College on Chorley New Road. The oldest school building is the old Horwich Parish School which was built as a National, Infant and Sunday School in 1793 and now used as a parish hall and is a Listed building. Horwich Parish Church of England Primary School occupies the listed premises built in 1832.

Our Lady's school was built in 1886 on Chorley New Road and Holy Family Primary School on Victoria Road in 1894. Holy Family was the first Lancashire County Council school to be granted aided status under the 1944 Education Act. The schools merged on the Victoria Road site as St. Mary's RC Primary School.

List of schools in Horwich
School Type/Status OfSTED Website
Chorley New Road Primary school Primary 105178 website
Claypool Primary School Primary 105195 website
Horwich Parish CofE Primary School Primary 105233 website
Lord Street Primary School Primary 105179
St Catherine's CofE Primary School Primary 132785 website
St Mary's RC Primary School Primary 105250
Lever Park School Special 131692 website
Rivington and Blackrod High School Secondary & Sixth form 105261 website
St Joseph's RC High School and Sports College Secondary 105262 website
Horwich Campus of Bolton College Further education 130495 website
Alliance Learning Work-based learning 50387 website

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