Bishop Ullathorne RC School
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Bishop Ullathorne RC School was established in Coventry in 1954. In 2006 it was awarded specialist status as a Humanities College. It is the only school in the UK named after William Bernard Ullathorne.
At its peak it consisted of three separate schools, a Boys Comprehensive, a Girls Comprehensive and a Grammar School for those children who passed the Eleven Plus. These later became a Lower School, Middle School and Upper School for pupils of different ages.
The Grammar School later became the home of the Coventry School For The Performing Arts before being sold to Bovis Homes who built a housing estate on the land.
The school currently has approximately 1100 pupils, and includes a sixth form college.
Bishop Ullathorne School achieved the highest SATS results for English in the whole of Coventry City (91%)
The main gates of Bishop Ullathorne RC School are at the bottom of Moat Avenue, off the Kenpas Highway (A45). Finham Park School, with main gains on Green Lane, is close by as the crow flies, but it is on the other side of the Coventry to Kenilworth railway line to Bishop Ullathorne RC school. The school gates of the two schools are at 10-15 minutes walking distance apart, as there is no direct official access across the railway line.
