Central Grammar School - then Central High Upper School

Now Belle Vue Athletics and Leisure Center

As the sign in front of the school indicates, this building, opened in 1958 as the Central Grammar School for Boys, is now the Belle Vue Athletics and Leisure Center. This school, like many, has gone through a number of realignments and relocations. Starting out in 1900 as the Central Grammar School for Boys on Whitworth Street, in the city center, it moved to this modern building across the road from Belle Vue on Kirkmanshulme Lane in 1958. 

In 1967, during the Comprehensive School reorganization, it was twinned with Victoria Park Secondary School and was renamed the Central High School for Boys. At that time the Victoria Park site became the Lower School and the Kirkmanshulme Lane site the Upper School.

In 1982 this school joined with Ducie Tech, which was located more than a mile away and became known as the Ducie Central High School for Boys.

In 1993 Manchester City Council put forward a plan to make the school a mixed boys and girls school and bring both sites together in a new building. In September of 1995 the new, £5 million Ducie High School opened and the Central High School building closed as a school.