page_title: Longton High School
section_title: Closure
hierarchical_section_title: Longton High School / History / Closure
caption_attribution_description: English: Remains of Longton High School
context_page_description: Longton High School was a school in Longton and later Meir, Staffordshire from 1760 to 2010.
context_section_description: Stoke-on-Trent City Council announced its plans for secondary education in 2008 as its response to the government's Building Schools for the Future programme.  Under the plan, Longton High was designated as one of four secondary schools to be closed due to falling numbers of students.  Despite a campaign to save the school the council did not alter the decision.
  To mark the closing of the school in 2010, a time capsule was buried. The students were transferred to Sandon Business and Enterprise College. (Sandon High School was established in the Sandon Road site when Longton High moved to Box Lane.) Following the closure, the site was used by Sandon Business and Enterprise College until July 2011. On 18 December 2011, the main building was demolished and the rest of the site, except for the newish technology block, was cleared early in 2012.
caption: The Box Lane site after demolition of most of the buildings
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