St John Wall Catholic School is a
coeducational secondary school
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located in the
Handsworth area of
Birmingham, in the
West Midlands
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Etymology
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of England.
It is a
voluntary aided school administered by
Birmingham City Council and the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham
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. The school is named after
Saint John Wall, a 17th-century
Franciscan friar who is honored as a
martyr.
St John Wall Catholic School offers
GCSEs and
BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.
The school used to operate a
sixth form offering students a range of
A-level
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s and further BTECs. However the school closed its sixth form provision in 2016.
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Secondary schools in Birmingham, West Midlands
Voluntary aided schools in England
Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham
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