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Rosland Secondary School was a secondary school located in
Dudley Dudley is a large market town and administrative centre in the county of West Midlands, England, southeast of Wolverhampton and northwest of Birmingham. Historically an exclave of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the ...
,
England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. It was built in 1932 to serve the expanding
Kates Hill Kates Hill, or Kate's Hill, is a residential area in Dudley, West Midlands, England. History Kates Hill was the scene of chaos in 1648 when parliamentarians used it as their base in the Civil War against King Charles I. As a result, many road ...
area of the town, and closed in 1970. Its buildings became part of The Blue Coat School, previously based several hundred yards away in Bean Road, until the entire school moved to the Rosland site in 1981. It remained in use as a school until July 1990, a year after the Blue Coat School had merged with
The Dudley School This article details a number of defunct schools that were once located in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. For details of currently operating schools in the area, please see: ''List of schools in Dudley''. The Blue Coat School Cradley High ...
to form Castle High, with the old Rosland building being used as an annexe to Castle High for the oldest two year groups of former Blue Coat pupils. It is now a community centre owned by
St Thomas's Community Network St Thomas's Community Network is a community facility which serves the St Thomas's parish of Dudley, West Midlands, England. The opportunity for a large community centre in the Kates Hill area was on the horizon in October 1988, when Dudley counci ...
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{{Coord, 52.5116, -2.0702, type:edu_region:GB-DUD, display=title Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley Educational institutions established in 1932 1932 establishments in England Educational institutions disestablished in 1990 1990 disestablishments in England