Loreto High School, Chorlton

Coordinates: 53°26′02″N 2°15′44″W / 53.4338°N 2.2621°W

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Loreto High School
Address

Nell Lane Manchester , M21 7SW England
Coordinates	53°26′02″N 2°15′44″W / 53.4338°N 2.2621°W / 53.4338; -2.2621
Information
Type	Voluntary aided comprehensive
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	c. 1960s 2007 (present school)
Local authority	Manchester City Council
Department for Education URN	105574 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Catherine Hughes (Formerly Peter Tite)
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	750~
Website	http://www.loretochorlton.co.uk

Loreto High School is a coeducational Catholic high school in the Manchester suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. It was the first IBVM (Loreto Sisters) school to be coeducational from the very beginning and the first Loreto secondary school in the area since Loreto College was reduced to a sixth form college during the 1970s.

History

Loreto High School was originally St Thomas Aquinas High School, formerly Marist High School, a girls' grammar school founded during the 1960s.^[1] Prior to the rebranding, St Thomas Aquinas had a poor reputation in the community. It came under the trusteeship of the Loreto Sisters and was renamed Loreto High School in 2007.^[2]^[3]

Academics

Since the renaming, the school's academic performance has improved. It was rated "outstanding" and "good" in all aspects at the 2010 Diocesan inspection report^[4] and has been commended by Ofsted for "good practice" in its teaching.^[5]

In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the school, along with all of the schools in the UK and abroad, was shut until further notice, leaving students into home learning. Due to their GCSEs being cancelled, the Year 11 students left the school three months earlier.

References

^ About Us Archived 2013-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Parents fight for places at school that got tough". Manchester Evening News. 8 February 2010.
^ "New name spells big future for high school". Manchester Evening News. 3 May 2007.
^ Diocese of Salford Section 48 Inspection^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ "Good practice resource - Good progress in mathematics for groups that often underperform nationally: Loreto High School Chorlton". Ofsted. 28 November 2012.

External links

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Independent schools	Chetham's School of Music Manchester Grammar School Manchester High School for Girls St Bede's College Withington Girls' School
Special schools	Pioneer House High School
FE & sixth form colleges	Co-operative College Connell Sixth Form College Loreto College The Manchester College Xaverian College
Defunct schools	Ellen Wilkinson High School Hollies Convent FCJ School Newall Green High School Plant Hill Arts College Poundswick Grammar School

v t e Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary or Sisters of Loreto schools
In Australia	Loreto College Coorparoo (Queensland) Loreto College, Marryatville (South Australia) Loreto College, Ballarat (Victoria) Loreto Kirribilli (New South Wales) Loreto Mandeville Hall (Victoria) Loreto Nedlands (Western Australia) Loreto Normanhurst (New South Wales)
In Canada	Loretto College School (Toronto) Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School (Toronto)
In India	Loreto College, Kolkata Loreto Convent, Asansol Loreto Convent, Darjeeling Loreto Convent Lucknow Loreto Convent School, Delhi Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla Loreto House (Culcutta) Loreto Schools, Kolkata St. Agnes' Loreto Day School (Lucknow)
In Ireland	Loreto Abbey, Dalkey Loreto College, Coleraine Loreto College, Foxrock Loreto College, Mullingar Loreto College, Swords, Loreto Convent Secondary School, Letterkenny Loreto High School Beaufort Loreto Secondary School, Kilkenny Loreto Secondary School, Navan Loreto Secondary School, Bray Loreto Secondary School, Balbriggan Loreto College, St Stephen's Green
In Kenya	Loreto High School, Limuru Loreto Convent Msongari Loreto Convent Valley Road
In Mauritius	Loreto College of Rose-Hill
In the United Kingdom	Loreto College, Coleraine (County Londonderry, Northern Ireland) Loreto College, Manchester (England) Loreto College, St Albans (England) Loreto Grammar School (Altrincham, England) Loreto Grammar School, Omagh (County Tyrone, Northern Ireland) Loreto High School, Chorlton (Manchester, England) St Mary's School Ascot (England) St Mary's School, Cambridge (England)
Defunct schools	Loreto Convent, Claremont (Western Australia) St Mary's School, Shaftesbury (England)
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