Northicote School is a co-educational secondary school located in the city Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. The age range of the school is 1118. It had specialist status in mathematics and computing.
It was the first school in Britain to be condemned as "failing" by OFSTED shortly after the organisation's creation in 1992, but within five years had been transformed to a "successful and over-subscribed school"—a remarkable turnaround that saw head teacher Geoff Hampton knighted for his services to education. Sir Geoff has since departed for a Professor's role at University of Wolverhampton and the school is now under the leadership of Mr R. Davis.
The Northicote School was built as a secondary modern school during the 1950s to serve the expanding Bushbury area of Wolverhampton, though during the 1970s it converted to its current status of comprehensive. The school was informed in 2007 that it was being merged with Pendeford Business and Enterprise College to form an academy under controversial plans.
In the academic year 2010–11 it has merged with Pendeford High School to become the North East Wolverhampton Academy (N.E.W). The school currently remains at its previous site, but is now known as the N.E.W Northwood campus. The current princable is. Bal Pierpoint.
On 8 April 2011, there was a student strike against the academy, which made the front page in the Express & Star and had made BBC Midlands Today.