Codsall Community High School
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Codsall Community High School is a school in Codsall. In September 2004 it officially became the first to achieve Specialist College status in Maths and Computing. In 2005, having stood down, Mr E. Liddy was replaced as headteacher by Mrs M.E. Tunnicliffe. Codsall Community High School is a 13-18 co-educational comprehensive school located in an attractive village environment in South Staffordshire. The total number of pupils is 1,300, of whom more 300 are Sixth Form students. One teacher at the school is Mr Marcynko who recently won teacher of the year in his native Ukraine.
The school's most recent Ofsted report stated that the school 'provides a satisfactory education', and that, accordingly, students in the main school 'achieve satisfactorily and reach average standards'. In light of this inspection, and of the new management structure now in place, significant measures have been put in place in an attempt to improve all aspects of the school.
The school offers a usually-wide range of subjects for an institution of its type, with the focus recently being shifted to the delivery of more ICT and computing courses, as well as vocational qualifications. Indeed, Codsall High School is the only comprehensive school in South Staffordshire still to offer classical subjects, including classical civilisation and Latin.
The school’s Code of Conduct provides clear guidelines and expectations for the development of our students as fulfilled, mature, responsible citizens, ready to meet the demands of a rapidly changing world. With over 320 students, the Sixth Form at Codsall is one of the largest in Staffordshire and the West Midlands. Their expectation is that students entering the school at Year 9 will continue into the Sixth Form (Years 12 and 13).
Each year, more than 120 students continue to university and other higher education programs.
The school also has a bad reputation locally for drug taking among the pupils and vandalism caried out by children who are allowed out of school at lunchtimes. Bullying remains a big problem at the school and is largely untackled.
