Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School is a
co-educational
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Roman Catholic
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secondary school
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and
sixth form
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, located in
Wednesbury
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in the
West Midlands of
England
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.
The school opened in the 1960s and is named after
19th century
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Catholic cleric
Stuart Bathurst, and is under the jurisdiction of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham
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.
It is situated on the
A461 Wood Green near Wednesbury's border with
Walsall
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Walsall is th ...
and junction 9 of the
M6 motorway
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. Most of its pupils are from Wednesbury and neighbouring towns including
West Bromwich
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and Walsall.
Previously a
voluntary aided school
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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
specialist Arts College.
[Official school website](_blank)
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
A Levels
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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
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