North East Wolverhampton Academy

North East Wolverhampton Academy
Type Academy
Principal Mr Paul Farr
Location Marsh Lane
Fordhouses
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV10 6SE
England
Local authority Wolverhampton City Council
DfE number 336/6906
DfE URN 136182 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 985 as of April 2016
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–19
Website School website

North East Wolverhampton Academy is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Fordhouses area of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England.[1]

History

Previously known as 'Pendeford High School', it started life as a comprehensive school in September 1968. It was created by merger of two separate schools, Wobaston Secondary School and Wolverhampton Grammar Technical School. Wobaston Secondary School transferred to its new building in 1957 which was known as 'lower school'. It had however existed on this site since 1942. The school then went by the name of Fordhouses Senior Mixed School using the old huts between the two buildings and the buildings near the tennis courts which were used for woodwork and are now the Pendeford Youth Club. The air-raid shelters were kept for a time as a reminder of a different age. The Grammar Technical School, previously known as the Technical High School and before that the Intermediate School, transferred from its central Wolverhampton site in Old Hall Street in 1963 to the building which was known as 'upper school'. Finally in 1968 the two buildings were merged and renamed Pendeford High school.

The school was renamed Pendeford Business and Enterprise College after gaining specialist status as a Business and Enterprise College. In September 2010 the school merged with Northicote School. The new combined school was named North East Wolverhampton Academy, and was originally located over both former school sites before relocating to a newly constructed and refusbished campus in September 2014 at the former Pendeford Business and Enterprise College site.

Academics

North East Wolverhampton Academy offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and BTECs.

Notable former pupils

Pendeford High School

Wolverhampton Grammar Technical School

Notable staff

References

External links

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