Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School & Sixth Form
Address
Rochdale Road

Stanycliffe
Middleton
, ,
M24 2GL

Coordinates53°33′54″N 2°10′59″W / 53.565°N 2.183°W / 53.565; -2.183
Information
TypeVoluntary aided school
MottoMoniti Fide Meliora
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
Established1959
FoundersDe La Salle Brothers
Local authorityRochdale
Department for Education URN105844 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherA Bridson
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1189
Colour(s)   Black and Red
Websitehttp://www.clrchs.co.uk/

The Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, for ages 11–18. The school is named for Thomas Langley, a 15th-century prelate who hailed from Middleton.

Location

Cardinal Langley school is on Rochdale Road (A664), around one mile from the end of the Middleton spur of the A627(M). Hopwood Hall College and Hopwood Clough Nature Reserve are nearby to the north-west. .

History

Grammar school

It opened under the supervision of the De La Salle Brothers in September 1959 as a grammar school with the first two years, gradually increasing year by year. The second year students were drawn from existing grammar schools in the area.

In the second year of existence the building work had not been completed and hence students attended on a half day basis. It was administered by Lancashire Education Committee and by 1967 had 780 boys. In 1974, it was taken over by the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. Since then, the number of De La Salle brothers teaching at the school reduced and by the early 1990s all Lasallian brothers had left.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1979.

Parish & School

  • St John Fisher RC Primary School
  • St Peter's RC Primary School
  • St Thomas More R.C. Primary School
  • St. Mary's RC Langley

Academic performance

An Ofsted inspection undertaken on 9 May 2017 judged the school to be "good", in all inspected areas, including the sixth form college.[1]

It gets GCSE results slightly above average, but at A-level it performs better, receiving the best results in Rochdale LEA.

Notable former pupils

Cardinal Langley RC Grammar School

Cardinal Langley RC High School

Notes

  1. , ofsted.gov.uk; accessed 30 November 2015.
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