High Arcal School

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High Arcal School is situated in Sedgley, West Midlands, England. It was opened in 1961 as a grammar school and became comprehensive in 1978.

Pupils are divided into four groups known as "houses"; these are Attingham, Himley, Boscobel and Wightwick. The houses compete in both physical and academic events.

The majority of pupils enrolling at the school are former pupils at Bramford Primary School, Foxyards Primary School, Hurst Hill Primary School and, until its closure in 2006, Sycamore Green Primary School.

The school's current head teacher is Mrs Manson, who took the position on a temporary basis in August 2006 following the resignation of Mr Jeffrey Williams, who quit after being fined at Wolverhampton Crown Court following a conviction for kerb-crawling. He had been head at the school for more than a decade prior to this incident, and had seen a major turnaround in the school's fortunes. The highlight of the school's recent uprise in fortunes came in 2002, when it came highest of Sedgley's three secondary schools in the GCSE tables for the first time in more than a decade. This success was repeated in 2006, when High Arcal came seventh out of the borough's 22 schools - ahead of 12th placed Dormston and 14th placed Ellowes.