Smith's Wood Academy (formerly Smith's Wood School and then Smith's Wood Sports College) is a

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located in

Smith's Wood Smith's Wood is a residential area in the north of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands of England. It is a civil parish with a population of 10,476, according to the 2011 census. The A452 and M6 form its north and east bou ...

in the

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

of England. Smith's Wood School was awarded specialist

Sports College Sports Colleges are senior secondary schools which promote sports alongside secondary education. United Kingdom Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist schools programme, Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdo ...

status in September 2006 and was renamed Smith's Wood Sports College. Formerly a community school administered by

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is the local council of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of seven in the West Midlands and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties ...

, in September 2017 Smith's Wood Sports College converted to academy status and was renamed Smith's Wood Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust.

Teaching

Smith's Wood Academy offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

History

Fire in 1977

A fire on Saturday 1 October 1977 destroyed changing rooms.''Birmingham Weekly Mercury'' Sunday 2 October 1977, page 3

References

External links

Smith's Wood Academy official website
Academies in Solihull Arson in the 1970s School buildings in the United Kingdom destroyed by arson Secondary schools in Solihull {{WestMidlands-school-stub