Editing Netherton, Merseyside (section)

==Education==
Netherton is home to one secondary school, [[The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco]]. Formerly there was St Ambrose Barlow High School, Bootle Grammar School and Warwick Bolam County Secondary School as well as a Girl's County Secondary School. In August 2009, [[Bootle High School]] closed its doors for the last time as students transferred to [[Litherland High School]].  In December 2009, works started to demolish the school on Browns Lane.
Now however the properties on the council estate are mostly privately owned and were bought under the [[right to buy scheme]] brought in by the conservative government under Margaret Thatcher. St Ambrose Barlow was formerly St. Catherine's Roman Catholic High School and was for girls only, also closed on 11 November 2016. The corresponding boys' school was St. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic High School, situated approximately on mile away on the other side of the canal.