Kaskenmoor School

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Kaskenmoor School is a mixed gender comprehensive [[secondary school for 11 - 16 year olds in the Hollinwood area of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England.

The school has approximately 750 pupils in its attendance. Opened in the mid 1960s and in 2005 Park Dean, Marland Fold and Hill Top Special schools joined the Kaskenmoor campus founding the new special needs school New Bridge. Kaskenmoor's motto is "Building a Community Of learners". The current head teacher is Mr John Alder. The school is currently bidding to become a Performing arts college. Because the school was built on marshlands of Oldham there are four separate buildings in the campus.

Although the school has struggled in recent years to provide a satisfactory level of education and teaching, there have been great strides to improve the schools performance - particularly in 2006.

Kaskenmoor has been earmarked by the council as a possible Academy School which could see the school closed and merged with other high schools in Oldham.

Coordinates: 53.5149° N 2.1389° W