Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don't miss a thing happening in and around the city The school made famous in the TV documentary Educating Greater Manchester is changing its name and offering free blazers to pupils.
From September, Harrop Fold School will become The Lowry Academy after it was taken out of council control. The name will be somewhat familiar to Salford residents as there was previously a Lowry High School in Lower Broughton, but that closed in 2000.
Harrop will take the artist's name as part of its conversion into an academy, now run by the United Learning multi-academy trust. READ MORE: Scrapping of school bubbles brings hope disruption will end, but others warn 'it will not end well' The trust already runs 10
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