[1] It is a voluntary aided school administered by Lancashire County Council and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool.

In 1996, the school was awarded specialist status as a Technology College.

Pupils had to travel everyday to a closed school in Ribbleton until Christmas.

[4] St Mary's offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils.

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