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Girls' grammar school in Upton, Wirral, England
Upton Hall School FCJ
is a
Catholic
girls'
grammar school
with
academy status
located in
Merseyside
,
England
. It was founded in 1849 by the
Faithful Companions of Jesus
(FCJ).
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It is one of four
Catholic
schools in the
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
. The school is located within the Catholic
Diocese of Shrewsbury
. It was awarded 'Outstanding' by
Ofsted
in 2006, 2012 and again in 2022. The school holds
Training School
status.
History
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It was founded as a girls' convent school by
Nuns
of
the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus
(FCJ) in 1862.
The remains of
Marie Madeleine
, the founder of the FCJ, were reburied in the school's personal graveyard in 1904 due to
anti-clerical
tensions in France. Her body was moved to Kent in 1980, and subsequently to Paris in 2012.
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