| Established | 1977 |
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| Principal | Jo Barker |
| Chair | David Rosbottom |
| Specialism | A Levels |
| Location | Winstanley Road Wigan Greater Manchester WN5 7XF England |
| Local authority | Wigan |
| DfE number | 8600 |
| DfE URN | 130522 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1,803 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 16–19 |
| Colours | Blue, White |
| Former name | Upholland Grammar School |
| Website | www.winstanley.ac.uk |
Winstanley College is a sixth form college in the Billinge Higher End area of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester.
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In the academic year 2007–08 it had 1,803 full time students.[1] The catchment area spreads across the Wigan, Bolton, Warrington and St Helens areas.
Winstanley College is highly oversubscribed due to its outstanding Ofsted Reports and A Level performance. For 2012-2013 entry, potential students must achieve 50 points in their best eight GCSE results, based on a system where an A* is equal to 10 points, an A, 8, a B, 6 and a C, 4.
The College has undergone a major re-development; including the building of a part student-designed English and Politics building, and the Head of Politics Elaine Mulroy has received an award for the top teacher of Politics within England and Wales.
Points of interest when visiting the college include:
Winstanley College Students' Union is an independent union and a member of the National Union of Students. The student union is run by the Student Union Executive. Usually each member of the Student Union Executive is a second year student, elected by Lower Sixth students, going into the Upper Sixth year.
The College began life as Upholland Grammar School, which was founded in 1661.[2] The grammar school moved to its present site on Winstanley Road in Billinge Higher End in September 1953. it had 600 boys and girls in the 1960s and had 750 by 1976. During WWII the grammar school had its own Air Cadet Squadron - 1439 (Beacon) squadron with the headmaster Alfred Maggs BA MSc as the first commanding officer (Flt Lt A. Maggs RAFVR(T))
It was renamed Winstanley College in August 1977,[3] and at that time, it ceased to enrol new pupils at age 11, gradually becoming a sixth form college. By September 1981, no pupils remained in the lower forms, and the transformation to a sixth-form college was complete. In early 2009, plans were unveiled for an extensive redevelopment of the grounds, which was subsequently put to the Student Council for approval. If passed, the extensions will be carried out over the coming 18 months by Robinson's Developments, a Westhead-based firm. In mid-2009, the project was shelved as funding was suddenly unavailable.
A portal to higher education, Winstanley College is at the forefront of the top 10 colleges in the UK in terms of A-level PPS (points per student) — ranked 1st in the Guardian's country-wide collation of A-Level results in 2010.[4]
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