Warley High School

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Warley High School
Closed	December 31, 2006^[1]
Type	Comprehensive community school
Religious affiliation	Secular
Location	Pound Road Oldbury West Midlands B68 8NE England
LEA	Sandwell
Students	951 (in 2003)^[2]
Gender	Co-educational
Ages	11 to 16

Warley High School was a secondary school located in Oldbury, West Midlands, England. The school was granted Sports College specialist status.

It opened in about 1960 as Oldbury Technical School, moving from the Flash Road site, a type of school which bridged the gap between secondary modern and grammar schools and was very biased towards technical subjects. The head teacher was Mr Bullerwell and the deputy head was Mr Thompson. There was also a sixth form centre, which survived the name change in 1975 but closed approximately 10 years later following a rise in popularity of sixth form colleges like Halesowen College.

The school's best known former pupil is Frank Skinner, the television comedian who attended between 1968 and 1973.

The school merged with Langley High School during the 2006-2007 academic year to form Oldbury College of Sport, with a lower and higher school site, and a new school is to be built on the upper school site. The new school opened its doors early in January 2007, at the beginning of the Spring term.

The school made the headlines for all the wrong reasons in February 2007 when teacher Kenneth Paskin, 59, was found guilty of sexual offences against a 13-year-old girl who had been placed in his care some time earlier. Mr Paskin, a teacher and netball coach for some 30 years (the final nine of them at Warley) prior to his arrest, was sentenced to three years and three months in prison and put on the Sex Offenders Register for life.^[3]