Cansfield High School is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

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located in the Ashton-in-Makerfield area of the

Metropolitan Borough of Wigan The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest town, Wigan, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Atherton, Greater Manchester, Atherton, Ashton-in-Ma ...

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, England.

Past headmasters

* To 1974 : Mr S Price * 1974-1988: Mr C A Brand * 1988-1990: Acting headteachers Mr S Wall and Mr D Parfitt * 1990-1995: Mrs H G Gregory * 1995-2018: Mr M Southworth * 2018–2023: Dr. Geoff Baker * 2023–Present: Mrs N Daniels

References

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Ofsted reportBBC school performance tables
{{authority control Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan Community schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan Ashton-in-Makerfield