PEMBEC High School (Pemberton Business and Enterprise College) was a state school in the Pemberton district of Wigan, Greater Manchester, with Business and Enterprise College status.

PEMBEC High School
Address
Map
Montrose Avenue

, ,
WN5 9XL

England
Coordinates53°32′38″N 2°40′34″W / 53.5438°N 2.6761°W / 53.5438; -2.6761
Information
TypeSecondary School
Closed2011
Local authorityWigan
SpecialistBusiness and Enterprise College
Department for Education URN106520 Tables
OfstedReports
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 16
HousesEnterprise, Mill, Barge, Land, Coilery
Colour(s)  
Blue and Green
Websitehttp://www.pembec.wigan.sch.uk/index.htm

The school had a "Gifted and Talented" programme that had given it its highest number of pupils with A and A*s at GCSE.[1]

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.[2]

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.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Pemberton Business and Enterprise College, archived from the original on 29 June 2008
  2. ^ "Wigan Warriors Unveil Central Park", Wigan Warriors, Wigan Warriors, archived from the original on 9 February 2013, retrieved 24 July 2012
  3. ^ 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.