Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School is a co-educational Roman Catholic

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and sixth form, located in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England. The school opened in the 1960s and is named after

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Catholic cleric Stuart Bathurst, and is under the jurisdiction of the

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. It is situated on the A461 Wood Green near Wednesbury's border with Walsall and junction 9 of the M6 motorway. Most of its pupils are from Wednesbury and neighbouring towns including West Bromwich and Walsall. Previously a voluntary aided school administered by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, in April 2020 Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by The St John Bosco Multi-Academy Company. The school is a

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accessed 20 April 2014. Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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and further BTECs. The school suffered a tragedy on 24 September 1984 when a teacher and six teenage pupils were killed when the school minibus collided with a lorry outside the school.

Notable former pupils

* Simon Johnson, footballer * Mark Lewis-Francis, sprinter

References

External links

Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School official website
Secondary schools in Sandwell Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham Wednesbury Academies in Sandwell Specialist arts colleges in England {{WestMidlands-school-stub