Light Hall 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) ...
located in Shirley, West Midlands, England.
Light Hall School was established on Hathaway Road in 1965 as a boys' grammar school on land once belonging to Light Hall Farm.
Light Hall School is one of sixteen
secondary schools
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 '' lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper seconda ...
in the UK
Metropolitan Borough of Solihull
The Metropolitan Borough of Solihull is a metropolitan borough in West Midlands county, England. It is named after its largest town, Solihull, from which Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is based. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region ...
. The school has over 1,170 students, from ages eleven to sixteen.
The school suffered from a fire in February 2006; a new building was opened in October 2008 to replace the destroyed classrooms.
BBC news article and video of the opening
/ref> The new building has classrooms for mathematics, English, music and drama. It also has a new dining hall, library, media studies classrooms and offices. The Design and Technology Block was refurbished in April 2013 with a new CAD/CAM room which has a laser and 3D printers.
References
External links
School's website
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Academies in Solihull
Schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull