Wyvern St Edmund's is a

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, near

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in the English county of Wiltshire.

History

The school opened in 1972 as Highbury Secondary School, as a replacement for Highbury Avenue

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which was in a 1930s building at Highbury Avenue, Fisherton Anger, Salisbury. By 1994 there were 530 on the school roll. In 1995, the school was renamed Wyvern College. Under the

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of the 1990s and 2000s it was a

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, teaching all subjects but with emphasis on Science, Mathematics, Technology and Communications Technology; it operated in partnership with Wiltshire College Salisbury. In 2003 the school assumed

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status and became a

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school. In April 2017, Wyvern College converted to academy status and joined the adjacent St Edmund's Girls' School in the Magna Learning Partnership, a multi-academy trust. From September 2018 the two schools operated as a single mixed school called Wyvern St Edmunds, pooling their leadership, staff and buildings, although retaining their separate legal identities. In September 2022 the two schools formally and legally amalgamated as Wyvern St Edmund's.

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Wyvern College
archived in March 2018 {{authority control Secondary schools in Wiltshire Educational institutions established in 1972 1972 establishments in England Academies in Wiltshire Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Salisbury