Queen Mary's High School

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Queen Mary's High School
Location
Queen Mary's High School
Upper Forster Street

Walsall
,
West Midlands
,
WS4 2AE

England
Coordinates 52°35′22″N1°58′34″W / 52.5895°N 1.976°W / 52.5895; -1.976
Information
TypeGrammar school;
Academy
MottoSemper Fidelis (Always Faithful)
Established1893
Local authority Walsall Borough Council
Department for Education URN 136777 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Chair of GovernorsT.J. Normanton
Head TeacherNicola Daniel
GenderGirls ('mixed' sixth form)
Age11to 18
Enrolment930
Houses  Austen
  Brontë
  Eliot
  Shelley
Colours   Green, yellow,
Website http://www.qmhs.org.uk/

Queen Mary's High School, situated on Upper Forster Street, just outside Walsall town centre, is an all-female grammar school, with entry in Year 7 decided by the 11+ and entry into the Sixth Form decided by GCSE results. [1] It is twinned with Queen Mary's Grammar School, and like the Grammar School is part of the Queen Mary's Foundation. [2]

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The main body of the school is a girls’ school, but the Sixth Form is coeducational. [3]

The school gained an outstanding level in the Ofsted report when it was last inspected in 2021. [4]

The school was a Language College [5] and historically required students to study two languages to GCSE standard.

Class sizes in the lower school are currently around 30 girls. Sixth-form classes have a minimum of about 8 students and a maximum of 25.

The school is divided into houses named after famous 19th-century female authors – Austen (after Jane Austen), Bronte (after Emily Brontë), Eliot (after George Eliot) and Shelley (after Mary Shelley), the latter being a new house in the 2012/13 academic year. Each house has a member of staff in charge of it, a captain from Year 13 (upper sixth form) and a vice-captain from Year 12 (lower sixth form).

Alumni of the school include Meera Syal.

Notable staff

References

  1. ↑ website, Queen Mary's High School. "Admissions Arrangements". Queen Mary's High School. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "QUEEN MARY'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION – Charity 1175360". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  3. ↑ website, Queen Mary's High School. "Welcome from the Headteacher". Queen Mary's High School. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  4. ↑ enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk, Ofsted Communications Team (22 April 2023). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  5. ↑ "Specialist Schools Home". DfES. July 2006. Archived from the original on 3 August 2006. Retrieved 2 August 2006.
  6. ↑ Beddoe, D. (23 September 2004). Foxley, Barbara (1860–1958), educationist and campaigner for women's rights. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 29 January 2018, see link
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