Cardinal Langley Roman Catholic High School & Sixth Form
Address
Rochdale Road Stanycliffe Middleton , Greater Manchester , M24 2GL England
Coordinates	53°33′54″N 2°10′59″W / 53.565°N 2.183°W / 53.565; -2.183
Information
Type	Voluntary aided school
Motto	Moniti Fide Meliora
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1959
Founders	De La Salle Brothers
Local authority	Rochdale
Department for Education URN	105844 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	A Bridson
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1189
Colour(s)	Black and Red
Website	http://www.clrchs.co.uk/

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.^{[citation needed]} In 1974, it was taken over by the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Parish & School

• St John Fisher RC Primary School
• St Peter's RC Primary School
• St Thomas More R.C. Primary School
• St. Mary's RC Langley

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.^[1]

It gets GCSE results slightly above average, but at A-level it performs better, receiving the best results in Rochdale LEA.^{[citation needed]}

Notable former pupils

Cardinal Langley RC Grammar School

• Maartin Allcock (b 1957), musician
• Clint Boon (b 1959), Inspiral Carpets and DJ
• 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 Alkrington^[2]
• 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

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