Education
The town possesses a variety of academic institutions. The all-girls Greenbank High School is situated next to the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, and is a certified Specialist Language College, teaching Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian and Mandarin Chinese GCSE's. World famous actress Miranda Richardson was educated at the school. The male equivalent (also situated in Birkdale) is the all-boys Birkdale High School, a school specialising in Mathematics. The Office for Standards in Education (OfSTED) reported that the management of the school is poor, its ability to progress in the future is limited and the standard of teaching is unsatisfactory.
Meols Cop High School is situated next to the Kew Retail Park area of Southport and is one of the six schools in the country chosen to be written about in OfSTED's School Inspections handbook of 2012. Meols Cop High School has recently become one of the highest achieving schools in Sefton, with 96% of the students obtaining at least 5 GCSE's at A*-C grades. The school is oversubscribed and is currently building an additional 2 new classrooms in order to make way for new year groups with the amount of students increasing every year.
There are several other high schools prominent in the town, including Stanley High School, which is a specialist Sports College and Christ the King which is the highest achieving high school in Southport.
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