Aldersley High School is a mixed

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and

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located in the

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area of

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in the

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of England. Despite the name, Aldersley High School is not in

Aldersley Aldersley is a small suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is north-west of Wolverhampton city centre, within the Tettenhall Regis ward. Aldersley is a relatively modern part of Wolverhampton, with most of the housing stock – both ...

, but straddles the Wolverhampton /

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border on the western edge of Pendeford, surrounded on two sides by countryside. with many pupils who attend the school coming from the

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area of the city. Many pupils who attend the school come from the

area of Wolverhampton.

History

Previously a

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administered by

Wolverhampton City Council City of Wolverhampton Council is the governing body of the city of Wolverhampton, England. It was previously known as Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council (WMBC) prior to the award of city status in 2000, and also as Wolverhampton City Co ...

, Aldersley High School converted to academy status in January 2013 and is now sponsored by the Amethyst Academies Trust. However the school continues to coordinate with Wolverhampton City Council for admissions. In 2012 a

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was constructed on the school grounds, one of the first (and to date only) such tracks at a school in England. Work started in 2013 to construct a new theatre and remodel existing buildings, in preparation for an increase in capacity from 700 to 1,050. In 2016, a former vice-principal of the school, Daljit Kaur, was convicted for committing fraud whilst at the school. Kaur was subsequently banned from teaching for life. A new sixth form centre was built at Aldersley High School in 2019, which houses the entire sixth form provision for the Amethyst Academies Trust, and so includes sixth form students from

Moreton School Moreton School is a co-educational secondary school located one-mile north east of Wolverhampton City Centre in the West Midlands of England. The school accommodates over 700 pupils. History It was originally formed as a boys school, Bushbury ...

Academics

Aldersley High School offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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s and further BTECs.

References

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* {{authority control Secondary schools in Wolverhampton Academies in Wolverhampton