A new high school has opened in West Didsbury.
The new secondary, Didsbury High School, welcomed its first cohort of year 7 pupils this week.
The school, off Princess Road, is part of multi-academy chain The Laurus Trust and has been built to help meet the booming demand for secondary places in the south of the city.
Didsbury High has initially taken 210 year 7 pupils, with further intakes added each academic year.
It will eventually have 1,350 pupils, including a sixth form of 300 students.
Headteacher Dr David Woolley said the new school would follow an ‘unashamedly academic’ ethos.
“We are very excited to bring a Laurus Trust education to the young people of Didsbury,” he said.
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“We intend to provide an environment in which students can really flourish. Although we will be ‘unashamedly academic’, we realise that to produce truly rounded, capable young people, academic success alone is not enough.
“Our electives programme and extracurricular options aim to build on students’ strengths and interests.”
The expanding trust, which runs Cheadle Hulme High School, took over the running of Hazel Grove High School in Stockport this month.
