St Edmund's Catholic Academy is a

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with academy status located in the Compton area of

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. The Building Schools for the Future program invested £7.9 million of its £300 million budget into improving the school. A further £5 million was contributed by Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and Redrow Homes, which used parts of the site to create a training ground and new homes, respectively. The new school building was completed in September 2013. The name of the school comes from the influence of St. Edmund Campion (1540 – 1581), an English Jesuit priest and martyr. Its motto is "To Love and Serve the Lord".

Consortium

St. Edmund's is in a consortium with both St Peter's Collegiate Academy and Wolverhampton Girls' High School. St. Edmund's has links with its feeder schools: :St. Anthony's (in Fordhouses) :St. Bernadette’s (in Wombourne) :St. Christopher’s (in Codsall in Staffordshire) :SS Peter and Paul :SS. Mary & John’s :St. Michael’s (in Penn) :St. Teresa’s (in Parkfields)

Notable former pupils

* Kristian Thomas, gymnast

References

External links

St Edmund's Catholic Academy official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Edmund's Catholic Academy Secondary schools in Wolverhampton Academies in Wolverhampton Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham