Type | Secondary |
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Location | Chapelhouse Lane, Chelmsley Wood Solihull West Midlands B37 5JS England |
DfE URN | 129342 |
Ofsted | Reports |
Students | 1115 |
Gender | Coeducational |
Ages | 11–18 |
Houses | Alyward, Livingstone, Newton, Tyndale, Wilberforce |
Colours | Purple and Gold |
Grace Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school within the English Academy programme, at Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, West Midlands.
It opened in 2006 and replaced the old Whitesmore School. It is a specialist Business and Enterprise college.
Grace Academy Solihull is constituted as a company and registered charity under English law.[1]
It is sponsored by Grace Foundation,[2] a charity whose objects are "to advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom by promoting the establishment, maintenance, carrying on, management and development of schools with a Christian ethos and in accordance with Christian principles". Grace Foundation is endowed by Bob Edmiston, entrepreneur and founder of the evangelical international charity Christian Vision, who is a Governor of Grace Academy.