St Anselm's College, Birkenhead

St. Anselm's College is a Roman Catholic voluntary aided grammar school located in Merseyside, England. It is one of four Catholic schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, and one of three Irish Christian Brothers schools in the Merseyside area. The school is located within the Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. Founded in 1933, the school was in recent years granted Technology College status, in cooperation with Upton Hall School. The school ... more

St. Anselm's College is a Roman Catholic voluntary aided grammar school located in Merseyside, England. It is one of four Catholic schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, and one of three Irish Christian Brothers schools in the Merseyside area. The school is located within the Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. Founded in 1933, the school was in recent years granted Technology College status, in cooperation with Upton Hall School. The school used its specialist school status as an opportunity to improve teaching facilities and broaden the curriculum. The school was founded in 1933 by the trustees of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, at the invitation of the Rt. Rvd. Hugh Singleton, Bishop of Shrewsbury. In 1946 it became a direct grant grammar school and continued as such until 1975, when the trustees opted for the school to be independent in order to continue as a single-sex Selective school. The Education Act 1993 gave the trustees the chance to re-enter the maintained... less