Education
Warrington is home to two colleges: Priestley Sixth Form and Community College and Warrington Collegiate. The University of Chester has a campus at Padgate that was formerly part of Warrington Collegiate. Most of the high schools have their own post-16 provision (sixth-form).
The high schools throughout the borough are located at: Birchwood, Culcheth, Appleton (known as Bridgewater High School Warrington), two in Latchford (Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School and Cardinal Newman Roman Catholic High School), Sankey (Great Sankey High School), Lymm (Lymm High School), Padgate (Lysander Community High School), Penketh, Westbrook (St Gregory's Catholic High School), Orford (William Beamont High School), and Woolston. Woolston High School is to be closed in 2012.
There are also 74 primary schools in the borough, all of which feed into at least one of the above.
There are also a selection of private schools. This includes an all-girls' high school, Cransley High School, Great Budworth. There are also a mixture of different religious schools.
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