Caludon Castle School is an

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Wyken Wyken, a suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England, is situated between the areas of Stoke and Walsgrave, three miles east-northeast of Coventry city centre. The population of this Coventry Ward taken at the 2011 census was 16,818. It is a fa ...

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. The school was founded in 1954 as a boys'

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, but is now a co-educational 11-18 comprehensive school with a

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. In September 2004, the school was designated as a Business and Enterprise College, by the

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. The previous buildings dating from the 1950s were demolished to make way for a new £24 million PFI project resulting in the school being totally rebuilt. The school is situated on a site.

Notable staff

Former *

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Notable alumni

Adam Balding Adam Balding (born 7 December 1979, in Coventry) is a retired English rugby union footballer, his most recent team he played for was London Welsh. He played as a number eight. Balding came through Leicester Tigers academy and went on to make 6 ...

(born 7 December 1979), Rugby Union player with Newcastle Falcons * Stan Cowley, FRS (born 1947), Professor of Solar Planetary Physics at the University of Leicester. *

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Bobby Gould Robert Hewitt Gould (born 12 June 1946) is an English former footballer and manager. Early life Gould was born in Wyken, Coventry, Warwickshire on 12 June 1946. He is the son of Henry Gould and Helen McKellar Gould (née Morton). He spent h ...

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(born 1996), Footballer for

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References

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