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, England.

Location

It was situated near the junction of Queensway (A664) and Oldham Road ( A671) between Balderstone and Kirkholt. It was in the parish of St Mary, Balderstone.

History

Grammar school

The school was once called Rochdale Grammar School for Boys, formerly known as Rochdale Municipal High School for Boys on Church Lane. It was administered by Rochdale Education Committee, and moved to Queen Victoria Street in 1953 at a cost of £180,000. A grammar school had been founded in 1565 in Rochdale by

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, then

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. There was also Rochdale Grammar School for Girls on Falinge Road, becoming Falinge Park High School.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1969 – the Balderstone High School, then Balderstone Community School in 1972 for boys and girls aged 14–18. In 1992 it became a high school for boys and girls aged 11–16. In 1999 it gained

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status. The school closed on 31 August 2010 as a result of the

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program. The school merged with Springhill High School and formed a new school called Kingsway Park High School. The building was used to host Kingsway Park High School until 2012 when a new building was built on the former Springhill High School site, Turfhill Road.Details of the new school (Kingsway Park HS)
Retrieved 20 May 2011

Alumni

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were killed by an American missile fired from an

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which hit a

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Rochdale Grammar School

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, Professor of Greek and Latin at

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since 1995 * Sir

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, Director from 1973 to 1986 of the

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* Glynn Boyd Harte, artist * Sir

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, businessman who founded

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in 1981 and Dealogic in 1983 * Sir Joseph Pilling, KCB, Identity Commissioner since 2009, and Director General from 1991 to 1992 of

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MP * John Taylor, Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language at

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since 2015

References

External links

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{{Schools in Rochdale Educational institutions established in 1953 Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale 1953 establishments in England Educational institutions disestablished in 2010 2010 disestablishments in England