Education
Macclesfield is served by four state high schools; The Macclesfield Academy, Fallibroome Academy, Tytherington High School and All Hallows Catholic College.
There are also two independent schools, The King's School and Beech Hall School.
Macclesfield High School is made up of students from the former school Henbury High School, and also took in the students left over when the secondary school Ryles Park closed 2004, which had been in turn an amalgamation of Ryles Park girls school and the oldest state school in the town, Macclesfield Central boys school which closed in 1975. It is on the site of Macclesfield College and Park Lane Special School as part of the Macclesfield 'Learning Zone', which was opened in 2007. Macclesfield High School was the name originally given to the girls grammar school on Fence Avenue now forming part of the King's School.
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