Mansfield High School, in neighbouring Brierfield, also closed at the same time.
In 1948, it became Nelson Secondary Technical School, taking both boys and girls.
There are residential properties at the front of the school on Hibson Road, and a derelict farm and Edge End Hall to the south.
This school was multicultural with predominantly Muslim children attending.
Edge End High School was the first public non-religious school in Lancashire to hold faith meetings every Friday and to build separate toilets where Muslims could perform ablution (wudhu) and pray the Friday Jumma prayer in school.