PEMBEC High School
The school had a "Gifted and Talented" programme that had given it its highest number of pupils with A and A*s at GCSE.
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.
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.
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.