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Blackheath Primary School
This is a list of schools in Sandwell, West Midlands, England. State-funded schools Primary schools *Abbey Infant School, Smethwick *Abbey Junior School, Smethwick *Albert Pritchard Infant School, Wednesbury *All Saints CE Primary School, West Bromwich *Annie Lennard Primary School, Smethwick *Bearwood Primary School, Smethwick *Blackheath Primary School, Rowley Regis *Bleakhouse Primary School, Oldbury *Brandhall Primary School, Oldbury *Brickhouse Primary School, Rowley Regis *Burnt Tree Primary School, Tividale *Cape Primary School, Smethwick *Causeway Green Primary School, Oldbury *Christ Church CE Primary School, Oldbury *Corngreaves Academy, Cradley Heath *Crocketts Community Primary School, Smethwick *Devonshire Infant Academy, Smethwick *Devonshire Junior Academy, Smethwick *Eaton Valley Primary School, West Bromwich *Ferndale Primary School, Great Barr *Galton Valley Primary School, Smethwick *George Betts Primary Academy, Smethwick *Glebefields Primary School, Tipton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. According to Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the borough comprises the six amalgamated towns of Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury, and West Bromwich, although these places consist of numerous smaller settlements and localities. Sandwell's Strategic Town Centre is designated as West Bromwich, the largest town in the borough, while Sandwell Council House (the headquarters of the local authority) is situated in Oldbury. In 2019 Sandwell was ranked 12th most deprived of England's 317 boroughs. Bordering Sandwell is the City of Birmingham to the east, the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley to the south and west, the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall to the north, and the City of Wolverhampton to the north-west. Spanning the borough are the parliamentary constituencies of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gospel Oak School
Gospel Oak School (formerly The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Academy and Willingsworth High School) is one of the new academies opened in England. The school's history dates back to September 1958, when Willingsworth Secondary Modern School to serve the Ocker Hill and Princes End areas of Tipton, replacing a smaller secondary modern at Ocker Hill and gaining comprehensive status in September 1969, when it became Willingsworth High. It became the RSA Academy in September 2008 and moved into its current buildings in September 2010, with the old buildings being demolished the following spring. It was one of the seven schools in the RSA Family of Academies, all in the West Midlands, of the Royal Society of Arts. In September 2021, the school was renamed Gospel Oak School after the Royal Society of Arts renounced their association with the school. Senior staff The Principal of the Academy is Mrs Helen Tanner. School building The school is housed in the same building that originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandwell Academy
Sandwell Academy is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in West Bromwich in the West Midlands, England. The school opened in 2006 and has since opened a new, on-site building with various fitness, IT and classroom facilities. The school is sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Mercers, Thomas Telford School, HSBC Education Trust, Tarmac Group and West Bromwich Albion F.C. The school has specialisms in Sport and Business Enterprise and has additional facilities to support the specialisms. Sandwell Academy operates a wide catchment area which includes all of West Bromwich and the entirety of Sandwell. The school achieved an 'Outstanding' rating in its most recent Ofsted inspection (2014). Notable former pupils include footballer Jerome Sinclair Jerome Terence Sinclair (born 20 September 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward. He represented England up to under-17 level. He spent his youth at West Bromwich Albion and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Michael's Church Of England High School, Rowley Regis
St Michael's Church of England High School is a coeducational Church of England secondary school located in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England. It was built during the 1960s and relocated from there to its current site on Curral Road in May 2011. The school takes its name from St Michael's Church, situated some two miles away in the township of Langley. Notable pupils include Carlton Palmer former English professional football player who played as a midfielder, most notably for Sheffield Wednesday. It has been the only school in Rowley Regis since the closure of Britannia High School This article details a number of defunct schools that were once located in Sandwell in the West Midlands of England. For details of currently operating schools in Sandwell, please see: ''List of schools in Sandwell''. Albright Secondary Modern S ... in 2002. References Secondary schools in Sandwell Educational institutions established in the 1960s Church of England secondary schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q3 Academy Tipton
Q3 Academy Tipton is a coeducational secondary school located in Tipton in the West Midlands of England. Admissions Q3 Academy mainly serves children aged 11–16 years for KS3 and 16–18 for Sixth Form. Pupils who mainly live in the Great Bridge, Tibbington, Horseley Heath and Tipton Green areas of the town attend the school. It is situated on Alexandra Road (B4517) towards Toll End (and West Bromwich) and near the crossroads with Church Lane (B4163) and the fire station. It is about a mile from the A41/A461 roundabout at Great Bridge, and about a half-mile north of Dudley Port railway station. History Grammar school The school was opened in 1927 as Tipton Central School. It served the local area as a grammar school for boys and girls, and its title was soon altered to Tipton County Grammar School, situated on Alexandra Road. It was administered by the South-West Divisional Executive of Staffordshire Education Committee (based in Dudley), then West Bromwich Education C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q3 Academy Langley
Q3 Academy Langley is a coeducational secondary school located in the Langley Green area of Oldbury in the West Midlands of England. There has been a school located at this site since 1926, firstly named Oldbury County High School and then Oldbury Grammar School, Oldbury High School, Langley High School, Oldbury College of Sport and prior to demolition, Oldbury Academy. The current Q3 Academy school opened in 2016 following site clearance and the development of an entirely new school. History Grammar school Oldbury County High School (a grammar school) opened in 1926, on Moat Road across from Barnford Hill Park in Langley Green. This was after the transfer of Oldbury Secondary School, founded in 1904, from Flash Road, Oldbury. In 1944, following the new Education Act, the County High, originally co-opting its location within Worcestershire, became Oldbury Grammar School. In 1929, local glass artists Tom Stokes and Bill Pardoe created a window for Oldbury Grammar's main scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q3 Academy Great Barr
Q3 Academy Great Barr (formerly Dartmouth High School) is a coeducational secondary school located on ''Wilderness Lane'' in Great Barr, West Midlands, England, near the border with Birmingham. It comes within the borders of Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell. History Dartmouth High School opened in September 1964 as a secondary modern school, becoming comprehensive in September 1969. The original motto, suggested by the Classics Teacher (later a drama teacher) Mr Bruce Graham was, "Gaudet, Tentamine et Virtus" (Strength rejoices in challenge). The School originally had 8 houses, four in the A half and four in the B half. The A half houses were Churchill, Elgar, Sutherland and Nuffield. The B half houses were Hillary, Curie, Kennedy and Fleming. In the 1980s Nuffield and Hillary stopped taking pupils, leaving three active Houses in each half of the school. It became Q3 Academy in September 2008, although it initially existed in the old Dartmouth buildings. In August 2008, the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phoenix Collegiate
The Phoenix Collegiate is a foundation secondary school and sixth form located in the Hateley Heath area of West Bromwich, a town in the West Midlands of England. The school was formed in September 2010 from the merger of Menzies High School and Manor High School, both located in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell. Originally operating from both former school sites, the Phoenix Collegiate has been based entirely at the former Menzies High School site in Clarke's Lane, West Bromwich. This follows the closure of the former Manor High School buildings on the Friar Park estate in Wednesbury due to asbestos. History The origins of the school can be traced to West Bromwich Municipal Secondary School at thWest Bromwich Institute which opened in 1902 on Lodge Road, West Bromwich. It was funded by Sir George Kenrick. It became West Bromwich Grammar School in 1944, and moved to new buildings on Clarkes Lane in 1964. It was only a grammar school at this site for five years, becoming a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perryfields Academy
Perryfields Academy (formerly Perryfields High School) is a coeducational secondary school located on the Brandhall housing estate in Oldbury, West Midlands, England. History It has served the local community since 1956, first as a secondary modern school and then as a community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ... comprehensive school with Mathematics and Computing College status. In May 2021 Perryfields High School converted to academy status and was renamed Perryfields Academy. The school is now sponsored by Broadleaf Partnership Trust. School structure The school has five house groups which pupils are split into: Pioneer, Mariner, Enterprise, Voyager and Challenger. Ranking In 2009, it was the highest ranking secondary school in Sandwell, with 74% of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy (formerly Tividale Comprehensive School, Tividale High School and Tividale Community Arts College) is an academy for secondary aged pupils located in Tividale, Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England. The school was built in 1956 as The Tividale School to serve the expanding Tividale area which by this date had expanded beyond Tipton's borders into Dudley. Since then it has undergone several changes of status and name alongside building expansion. On its opening, it was one of the first comprehensive schools in Britain. From September 2009, the school became an academy sponsored by the Ormiston Academies Trust. The school was then renamed Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy. Today, the school mostly serves pupils living in the Oldbury, Tipton and Rowley Regis Rowley Regis ( ) is a town and former municipal borough in Sandwell in the county of the West Midlands, England. It encompasses the three Sandwell council wards of Blackheath, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ormiston Forge Academy
Ormiston Forge Academy (formerly Heathfield Foundation Technology College and Heathfield High School) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in the Old Hill area of Cradley Heath, West Midlands, England. Heathfield High School was built in the 1970s when two local schools Cradley Heath Secondary School, in the Lomey Town area of Cradley Heath, and Macefield Secondary School, in Old Hill, merged. The name of the school was coined from the names of the two schools. The new building programme of 2007 was completed, with a new hair and beauty salon, seminar rooms, catering rooms and a new sixth form study centre. As of 2011, the school became an academy sponsored by the Ormiston Academies Trust. The school was then renamed Ormiston Forge Academy. Today, the school serves pupils living in the Cradley Heath, Old Hill and Rowley Regis areas of Sandwell. The school has a mountain centre located in Dinas Mawddwy, Gwynedd, North Wales. The building, prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldbury Academy
Oldbury Academy (formerly Oldbury College of Sport) is a mixed secondary school and former sixth form In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepare for A-l ... located in Oldbury, West Midlands, England. It opened as a merger of Warley High School (formerly Oldbury Tech) and Langley High School (formerly Oldbury Grammar) on 1 January 1999 The head teacher, John Martin, led the merger of the two schools from 1983 until 1999. Phil Shackleton took over as head teacher from then on. Awards The school has aimed to achieve the ''National Healthy Schools Award'' by bringing catering in-house and teaching the benefits of healthy living in lessons throughout the curriculum. As part of the school's emphasis on sports, it has been awarded funding for a ''School Sport Coordinator'' scheme. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
