PEMBEC High School

Coordinates: 53°32′38″N 2°40′34″W / 53.5438°N 2.6761°W

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PEMBEC High School

Address

Montrose Avenue Wigan , Greater Manchester , WN5 9XL England
Coordinates	53°32′38″N 2°40′34″W / 53.5438°N 2.6761°W / 53.5438; -2.6761
Information
Type	Secondary School
Closed	2011
Local authority	Wigan
Specialist	Business and Enterprise College
Department for Education URN	106520 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Houses	Enterprise, Mill, Barge, Land, Coilery
Colour(s)	Blue and Green
Website	http://www.pembec.wigan.sch.uk/index.htm

PEMBEC High School (Pemberton Business and Enterprise College) was a state school in the Pemberton district of Wigan, Greater Manchester, with Business and Enterprise College status.

The school had a "Gifted and Talented" programme that had given it its highest number of pupils with A and A*s at GCSE.^[1]

PEMBEC was closed in August 2011, and the site was re-named 'Central Park'. Ran by the Wigan Warriors rugby league club, Central Park offered vocational training and further education programmes for 14-19-year-olds. The provision also offered extensive facilities to be used by the local community as well as new headquarters for the club, a sophisticated base for the Warriors' Community and Foundation operations and a Centre of Excellence for the highly reputed Wigan Warriors' Youth Development Programme.^[2]

In 2023, Wigan Council began to demolish the site, with plans to use the site to create a new home for Hope School, a SEND school currently based in Kelvin Grove, Wigan.^[3]

References

^ Pemberton Business and Enterprise College, archived from the original on 29 June 2008
^ "Wigan Warriors Unveil Central Park", Wigan Warriors, Wigan Warriors, archived from the original on 9 February 2013, retrieved 24 July 2012
^ Graham, Charles (14 February 2023). "Former Wigan high school buildings are being demolished to make way for a special school's new home". Wigan Today. Archived from the original on 12 April 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.

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