St Monica's High School

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St Monica's RC High School Specialist Language College is located on Bury Old Road in Prestwich,Manchester opposite to Heaton Park . It was created when two schools; St Joseph's and St Peter's amalgamated in 1987 and settled on the former St Peter's site. In 2007 St Monica's celebrates its 20th anniversary.

As a Catholic establishment, all pupils who attend the school have to be from a Catholic background. St Monica's regularly tops the Bury GCSE league table, which as a state-funded establishment even achieves higher results than the independent Bury Grammar Schools.

The Headteacher of St Monica's is Frank McCarron

The school serves pupils mainly from the areas of Prestwich, Whitefield, Kersal and Radcliffe.

As St Monica's does not have a Sixth Form (years 12 and 13), most pupils who continue their education go to Bury College and Holy Cross College in Bury, and Loreto College in Hulme, Manchester. Soon however St Monica's are hoping to have 6 Million pounds to spend on a sixth form college which will specialize in both languages and another speciality which is not yet announced.

St Monica's gained Language College status in 2003. St Monica's now has regular trips and exchange programmes with schools in France, Spain and China. The school also has links with schools in Germany. This school is also now part of the COMENIUS project which works with many different schools around Europe.

Some pupils from St Monica's regularly attend a Mathematics course at the Jewish, local authority-funded King David School, Crumpsall. As well as this course a select few pupils have been put forward for, and are now actually taking part in, an AS course in French.