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Golborne High School is a coeducational foundation secondary school located in Golborne, Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, England.HistoryThe oldest part of the school was opened in January 1954. This comprises the main corridor and its classrooms, and the Gymnasium. The school only admitted girls and was called the Girls' Secondary Modern School. In 1967 boys were admitted for the first time (having previously been educated at what later became Golborne County Junior School.) In 1969 Golborne became a Comprehensive School. New additions to the building included the Sports Hall (originally intended to be a swimming pool) and the RoSLA Block where the Sixth Form students were educated.The school badge comprises a green shield, quartered by the red cross of St George of England. In each quarter of the shield are symbols representing the industry in the area- the black diamond representing coal mining, the crossed shuttles of the weaving industry, and a sheaf of wheat symbolising local agriculture. The fourth symbol is the red rose of Lancashire, although technically the school now lies in Greater Manchester since local government re-organisation in 1974.Since this time there have been three major changes to the status of the school: In 1989 the 6th form closed with the final year taking their exams in 1990, the school lost its comprehensive state and became Golborne High. In 2007 in became a College of Visual Arts In 2010 it became a trust school under the unmbrella of the newly formed Golborne and Lowton Co-operative Learning partnership (GLCLP) A proposed of merging with Lowton High School to form a new school of 1200 pupils, eventually moving to a new site in Lowton in 2012, was cancelled by the coalition government in July 2010. Both of the old schools would have been demolished which generated some local opposition.