Shire Oak Academy

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Shire Oak Academy
Location West Midlands
England Coordinates: 52°38′09″N 1°55′14″W / 52.6358°N 1.9206°W / 52.6358; -1.9206
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Website www.shire-oak.walsall.sch.uk

The Shire Oak Academy (formerly Shire Oak School) is a coeducational academy school (age range 11–18) in Walsall Wood, West Midlands, England. More recently, the name was changed to Shire Oak Academy.

Originally a leading grammar school, along with many other secondary schools in the West Midlands Shire Oak became a comprehensive school in 1970, merging at the time with Walsall Wood Secondary Modern School.[1]

Features

It is one of two secondary schools providing services for the pupils of Walsall Wood, it also provides schooling for the Aldridge and Brownhills areas. "School location". Shire-oak.walsall.sch.uk. Retrieved 2011-10-10. </ref>

Threat of closure

In the late 1980s, it was faced with the threat of closure, but remained open following a campaign by the local community.[2]

Notable former pupils and staff

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Walsall Wood - Education | A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17 (pp. 283-284)". British-history.ac.uk. 1974-01-25. Retrieved 2011-10-10. 
  2. ↑ "Those were the days". Expressandstar.com. Retrieved 2011-10-10. 
  3. ↑ My Old School - Taking The Celebrity Register
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