St Cecilia’s RC High School opens new building

A special blessing and service was held by school staff and pupils to officially open the new Saint Carlo Acutis building at St Cecilia’s RC High School, Longridge, Preston.

Local Priest from Alston Lane Parish Canon H Doyle and the Chair of Governors, Mr M Flynn, performed the official blessing and cutting of the ribbon.

Four new classrooms were built, along with three further internal classrooms modified, to manage a huge increase in demand for school places in the Longridge area – increasing St Cecilia’s intake from 97 to 120 pupils per year group.

St Cecilia’s is oversubscribed in every year group and is a thriving ‘outstanding’ Catholic high School. For two years in a row, we have celebrated the best GCSE results the school has ever seen.

The building project was constructed by local contractors W.M. Monks of Longridge.

Headteacher, Mrs H Hall, said: “The new building extension will make such a huge difference to what we can offer pupils, parents and the community at our school.”

Source: St Cecilia’s RC High School