Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to t ...

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and

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located in the

Bournville Bournville () is a model village on the southwest side of Birmingham, England, founded by the Quaker Cadbury family for employees at its Cadbury's factory, and designed to be a "garden" (or "model") village where the sale of alcohol was forbidd ...

area of

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

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, England. The school was named after Dame Elizabeth Cadbury. The school was established in 1955, and the author and folklorist Roy Palmer was headmaster of the school from 1972 to 1983. Later, the school gained specialist status as a

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and was renamed Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College. Previously a

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administered by Birmingham City Council, in October 2016 Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College converted to academy status and was renamed Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School. The school is now sponsored by the Matrix Academy Trust. The sixth form provision is offered as part of the '

Oaks Sixth Form College Oaks Sixth Form College is a consortium of six secondary school sixth forms in South-West Birmingham. The consortium consists of: Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School, Harborne Academy, Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre, Lordswood Sixth Form C ...

', a consortium of 7 secondary schools in South-West Birmingham.

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External links

School website
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