Langley School is a

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

with academy status situated in the

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Solihull Solihull (, or ) is a market town and the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in West Midlands County, England. The town had a population of 126,577 at the 2021 Census. Solihull is situated on the River Blythe i ...

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. It has

specialist status Specialist schools in the United Kingdom (sometimes branded as specialist colleges in England and Northern Ireland) are schools with an emphasis or focus in a specific specialised subject area, which is called a specialism, or alternatively in t ...

in the

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

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and training. The school is a mixed, 11–16

comprehensive school A comprehensive school typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is res ...

with a current

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roll of 1002. In September 2002 the school became a specialist

Performing Arts College An Arts College, in the United Kingdom, is a type of specialist school that specialises in the subject fields of the performing, visual, digital and/or media arts. They were announced in 1996 and introduced alongside Sports Colleges to England in ...

, in 2006 a specialist

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and Training School.

Alumni

Elizabeth Bower Elizabeth Bower (born 1 August 1976) is an English actress, best known for starring as Dr Melody Bell in '' Doctors'' from 2007 to 2009. Life and career Bower was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Educated in Solihull, Bower attended Langley Schoo ...

, Actress *

Roberto Cipolla Roberto Cipolla (born 1963), , FREng, is a British researcher in computer vision and Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Education Cipolla was born in Solihull, England and attended Langley School in Soli ...

, professor *

Darren Carter Darren Anthony Carter (born 18 December 1983) is an English Association football, football coach and former professional player. Primarily a central midfielder, Carter made more than 300 appearances in the Premier League and English Football Le ...

, footballer * Ashley Sammons, footballer *

Phil Hawker Philip Nigel Hawker (born 7 December 1962) is an English former footballer who played as a defender. He scored 11 goals in 213 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham City, Walsall and West Bromwich Albion. Hawker was born in ...

, footballer *

Charlie Lakin Charlie Lakin (born 8 May 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League Two club Sutton United, on loan from club Burton Albion. He joined Birmingham City as a nine-year-old, went on to make his senior debu ...

, footballer

References

External links

Langley School WebsiteOfsted Report
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