Penwortham Girls' High School

Notable former pupils

• Miss Polly Rae, singer
• Joanna Riding, actress

  Penwortham Girls' Grammar School

• Dame Sue Ion FREng, President from 2004-06 of the British Nuclear Energy Society
• Ruth Mercer, Headmistress since 2009 of Godolphin and Latymer School
• Karen Pierce CMG, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations since January 2018
• Dame Nancy Rothwell FRS, Vice-Chancellor since 2010 of the University of Manchester, President from 2009-14 of the Royal Society of Biology
• Prof Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History since 2011 at Queen Mary University of London