The Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England, for ages 11–18. The school is named for Thomas Langley, a 15th-century prelate who hailed from Middleton.
Location Cardinal Langley school is on Rochdale Road (A664), around one mile from the end of the Middleton spur of the A627(M). Hopwood Hall College and Hopwood Clough Nature Reserve are nearby to the north-west. .
History
Grammar school It opened under the supervision of the De La Salle Brothers in September 1959 as a grammar school with the first two years, gradually increasing year by year. The second year students were drawn from existing grammar schools in the area.
In the second year of existence the building work had not been completed and hence students attended on a half day basis. It was administered by Lancashire Education Committee and by 1967 had 780 boys. In 1974, it was taken over by the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. Since then, the number of De La Salle brothers teaching at the school reduced and by the early 1990s all Lasallian brothers had left.
Comprehensive It became a comprehensive in 1979.
Academic performance An Ofsted inspection undertaken on 9 May 2017 judged the school to be "good", in all inspected areas, including the sixth form college., ofsted.gov.uk; accessed 30 November 2015.
It gets GCSE results slightly above average, but at A-level it performs better, receiving the best results in Rochdale LEA.
Notable former pupils
Cardinal Langley RC Grammar School Maartin Allcock (b 1957), musician Clint Boon (b 1959), Inspiral Carpets and DJ Mike Pickering (b 1954), DJ at The Hacienda, M People musician and A&R consultant Brendan Coogan (b 1970), television presenter Martin Coogan (b 1961), singer-songwriter, DJ Steve Coogan (b 1965), actor and comedian Steve Cowan, drummer with The Mock Turtles, from AlkringtonMiddleton Guardian Thursday 21 March 1991 Paul O'Brien CBE FRS (b 1954), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester Kieran Prendiville (b 1947), television presenter, writer Pearce Quigley, actor John Richmond (b 1960), fashion designer Stephen Gaukrogerhttps://humanities.org.au/our-community/obituary-stephen-gaukroger-1953-2023/
Cardinal Langley RC High School JP Cooper (b 1983) singer/songwriter Liam Fray (b 1985), musician The Courteeners Matt Greenwood (b 1995), actor Jane Hazlegrove (b 1968), actress Suranne Jones (b 1978), actress Kavana (b 1977), pop artist Keri-Anne Payne (b 1987), swimmer and Olympic silver medalist Paul Scholes (b 1974), footballer
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