St Edmund's Catholic Academy is a

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and

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with academy status located in the

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area of

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. The Building Schools for the Future program invested £7.9 million of its £300 million budget into improving the school. A further £5 million was contributed by Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and Redrow Homes, which used parts of the site to create a training ground and new homes, respectively. The new school building was completed in September 2013. The name of the school comes from the influence of St. Edmund Campion (1540 – 1581), an English Jesuit priest and martyr. Its motto is "To Love and Serve the Lord".

Consortium

St. Edmund's is in a consortium with both

St Peter's Collegiate Academy St Peter's Collegiate Academy (formerly St Peter's Collegiate School) is a mixed Church of England secondary school and sixth form located in the Compton area of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. The school is named after Saint P ...

and

Wolverhampton Girls' High School (Game Before the Prize) , established = 1911 , closed = , type = Grammar school;academy , religious_affiliation = , president = , head_label = Headteacher , head = Trudi Young , r_head = , cha ...

. St. Edmund's has links with its feeder schools:http://www.stedmunds.org/documents/admissions/2009_admission_arrangements_for_st_edmunds.pdf :St. Anthony's (in Fordhouses) :St. Bernadette’s (in Wombourne) :St. Christopher’s (in Codsall in Staffordshire) :SS Peter and Paul :SS. Mary & John’s :St. Michael’s (in Penn) :St. Teresa’s (in Parkfields)

References

External links

St Edmund's Catholic Academy official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Edmund's Catholic Academy Secondary schools in Wolverhampton Academies in Wolverhampton Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham