Sarum Academy (formerly Salisbury High School) is a

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secondary school with academy status in

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, Wiltshire, England. The school is on the west side of Salisbury, on Bemerton Heath.

History

The first buildings on the site were opened in 1957 for boys of St Thomas's School in central Salisbury, which at that time was a Church of England

secondary modern school A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1944 until the 1970s under the Tripartite System. Schools of this type continue in Northern Ireland, where they are usuall ...

; after the buildings were extended in the early 1960s the rest of the boys' school moved there. Westwood County Girls' Secondary Modern School was opened on an adjoining site in 1958, and in 1973 the two schools merged to form Westwood St. Thomas's School, which became a comprehensive school. From 1997 the school was called Salisbury High School. The school converted to academy status in 2010 and reopened as Sarum Academy. Since November 2017 it has been sponsored by Magna Learning Partnership, alongside

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and

Salisbury Sixth Form College Salisbury Sixth Form College (S6C) is a free school sixth form in the city of Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire. The college was established in 2014 and opened in temporary accommodation. However the college moved into a new purpose-b ...

in the Salisbury area, and

The Trafalgar School at Downton The Trafalgar School at Downton is a Coeducational secondary school located in Downton in the English county of Wiltshire. The school began as a secondary modern in 1964. Previously a foundation school administered by Wiltshire Council W ...

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* Academies in Wiltshire Educational institutions established in 2010 2010 establishments in England Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Salisbury Secondary schools in Wiltshire Schools in Salisbury {{Wiltshire-school-stub