Education
The secondary school is Great Sankey High School. This site also contains facilities for its sixth form under the name of Barrow Hall College. nine primary schools (Barrow hall, st philips, parkroad, old hall, st joseph's, sycamore lane, st james, callands and burtonwood)' serve Great Sankey.
There are also numerous primary schools which are linked to Great Sankey High School, these are called feader schools, for eg; Barrow hall primary school is a feader school to great sankey high school. They are spread around the parish and between them cover all races, religions and sexes.
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