Cowley Language College
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Cowley International College, formely Cowley Language College, is an 11-18 college situated on Cowley Hill, in Windle, St Helens, Merseyside
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and A580
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s, the Cowley Girls' Secondary Grammar School (also known as the Cowley Girls' School) with around 650 girls, and Cowley Boys' Secondary Grammar School (also known as Cowley School) with around 550 boys. In 1965, the St Helens Education Committee council introduced proposals for comprehensive education.
In 2001 it gained Language College
specialist status and changed its name.
It has now changed its name once again to Cowley International College in the summer of 2010.
(a high-achieving sixth form college) and Rainford High Technology College. Notable students include Lee Lowry, Michael Clarke, Ryan McKenna and Adam Hull.
St Helens, Merseyside
St Helens is a large town in Merseyside, England. It is the largest settlement and administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens with a population of just over 100,000, part of an urban area with a total population of 176,843 at the time of the 2001 Census...
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Admissions
It is an oversubscribed school. It is situated north of Windlehurst and Denton's Green in the north-west of the town, between the A570A570 road
The A570 is a primary route in northern England, that runs from St Helens to Southport. The road begins at junction 7 of the M62 motorway in Merseyside, and runs in a northerly direction as a dual carriageway through the centre of St Helens, meeting the A58 road, then the A580 road to the north of...
and A580
A580 road
The A580 is a primary A road in England that connects Walton, near Liverpool and Salford, near Manchester and known officially as Liverpool-East Lancashire Road. Locally, the road is shortened to the "East Lancs". The road was designed and built to provide better access to the Port of Liverpool for...
(to the north). The Pilkington
Pilkington
Pilkington Group Limited is a multinational glass manufacturing company headquartered in St Helens, United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of the Japan-based NSG Group...
glassworks are about a half-mile to the east.
Grammar school
A former part of the school was on Cowley Hill Lane. There were two grammar schoolGrammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
s, the Cowley Girls' Secondary Grammar School (also known as the Cowley Girls' School) with around 650 girls, and Cowley Boys' Secondary Grammar School (also known as Cowley School) with around 550 boys. In 1965, the St Helens Education Committee council introduced proposals for comprehensive education.
Comprehensive
The comprehensive plans took effect in September 1970 with each school becoming a 13-18 single sex comprehensive school - the Cowley Boys' School and Cowley Girls' School which soon became 11-18 schools in 1974 with around 700 at each school. For a short time from 1976-8, these schools were the Cowley High School for Boys and the Cowley High School for Girls. By 1978 it had become the Cowley High School with around 1,400 boys and girls.In 2001 it gained Language College
Language College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
specialist status and changed its name.
It has now changed its name once again to Cowley International College in the summer of 2010.
New building
The school has recently been subject to redevelopment, with a new building for the 11-16 site opened in October 2009 by Ed Balls, Head of Education. The previous site is currently being redeveloped into a state-of-the-art Sixth Form which opened to students in September 2010.Academic results
It gets GCSE results slightly under the England average. At A-level its gets above-average results, and the third highest in St Helens LEA, after Carmel CollegeCarmel College (St Helens)
Carmel College is a sixth form college located in the borough of St Helens, Merseyside.-History:The college is a Catholic mixed sixth form college located in St Helens, Merseyside, England and welcomes students of all faiths...
(a high-achieving sixth form college) and Rainford High Technology College. Notable students include Lee Lowry, Michael Clarke, Ryan McKenna and Adam Hull.
Cowley Grammar School (both)
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