 Accrington Moorhead High School was on "Cromwell Avenue" off Queen's Road West.The school was founded in 1895 on Blackburn Rd, Accrington as a 'Technical School' In 1968, it moved to the Moorhead site.In 1975, following the Labour government's educational reforms, it ceased to exist.Natalie Whitham was the first student at Accrington Academy to get into Oxford University.