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Offerton School 
Established 1960 Type Community school Religion Non denominational Chair Dr P Beatty Specialism Business & Enterprise Location The Fairway
Offerton, Stockport
Cheshire
SK2 5DS
England
Local authority Stockport DfE number ???/4031 DfE URN 106132 Ofsted Reports Students 794 Gender Mixed Ages 11–16 Former name Goyt Bank High School for Girls Website Offerton School Coordinates: 53°24′06″N 2°07′07″W / 53.4016°N 2.1187°WOfferton School is a state comprehensive secondary school in Offerton, a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester.[1]
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Admissions
The school caters for pupis aged 11 to 16 and is maintained by the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.[2]
It is situated north of the A626 near the River Goyt.
History
Grammar technical schools
It was known as the Goyt Bank High School for Girls from 1960, being built by Stockport Corporation, originally to be known as the Goyt Bank Technical High School for Girls. It was a two-form entry grammar technical school, with girls moving there for the former Greek Street High School for Girls in Stockport. Other similar schools at the time were the Stockport High School for Girls and the Fylde Lodge High School for Girls on Priestnall Road in Heaton Moor. Later it became a three-form entry school with 550 girls.
Stockport Technical High School (a boys' technical school) moved from Pendlebury Hall on Lancashire Hill to The Fairway at Offerton in 1964. It had 400 boys.
Both of these schools had sixth forms.
Comprehensive
It became Goyt Bank School in 1972 when it merged with Stockport Technical High School and Offerton Secondary School for Girls, both schools on the Offerton Campus. It had 1500 boys and girls.
In 1982(?) Goyt Bank merged with Dialstone Lane, and was renamed Offerton High School.
Later it became Offerton School.
Alumni
Goyt Bank High School for Girls
- Jean Llewellyn, Chief Executive since 2008 of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear
Stockport Technical High school
- Richard Banks, Managing Director since 2009 of Bradford & Bingley plc
See also
References
- ^ Ofsted report 2009 Retrieved 6 August 2010
- ^ Metropolitan Borough of Stockport: Offerton School
External links
Categories:- Education in Stockport
- Educational institutions established in 1960
- Business and Enterprise Colleges in England
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