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St James Academy | |
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![]() Some of the school buildings, as seen from St James's Road | |
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St James's Road , , DY1 3JE England | |
Coordinates | 52°30′43″N2°05′24″W / 52.512°N 2.090°W |
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Type | Academy |
Established | 2017 |
Local authority | Dudley |
Trust | Dudley Academies Trust |
Department for Education URN | 144657 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Principal | Ian Moore |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 11to 16 |
Website | www |
St James Academy is a secondary school located in Dudley, West Midlands, England for pupils 11 to 16 years. It is also a specialist Arts College.
The academy was formed in 2017 from Castle High School as part of the Dudley Academies Trust, in association with Dudley College. [1] The new name was officially adopted in September 2018. [2]
The St James Academy is situated on St James's Road, near Dudley town centre, within the buildings of the former Dudley Grammar School (which dated back to 1897; the school was originally established at a different site in 1562).
The grammar school was merged with neighbouring Dudley Girls High School and the Park Secondary Modern Boys and Girls Schools in September 1975 to become the Dudley School, a mixed 12-18 comprehensive school. By December 1985, plans were being made for the Dudley School to merge with at least one other local secondary school, and this finally happened in September 1989 when the school merged with The Blue Coat School to become Castle High School. The Castle High name was chosen in a poll by pupils, who also chose the design of the new school's logo. The new school took in some of the younger pupils from the Sir Gilbert Claughton School, which was being gradually closed down at the time.
After a year, the school opened to 11 year-olds following the local authority's decision to reduce the primary school leaving age; at the same time, its sixth form centre was closed and the leaving age for pupils fell to 16. The former sixth form facilities were used as classrooms to accommodate the new younger pupils. September 1990 also saw the school take in approximately 50% of pupils from Mons Hill School, which closed due to falling pupil numbers. Several teachers from this school were also recruited.
For the first year of its existence as Castle High School, the school incorporated the former Blue Coat School buildings on Kates Hill, where the final two academic year groups of that school's pupils remained. The Sir Gilbert Claughton School, however, remained a separate school for its final year as the oldest group of pupils completed their education, while younger pupils were transferred to Castle High and the Holly Hall School.
A new three-storey classroom block was opened in the 1991 summer term on the St James's Road site, the first in several phases of expansion which were completed in 1995. The expansion also saw the demolition of the school swimming pool, which had been on the Dudley School site. Mobile classrooms were on the site until the permanent buildings were opened. By September 1995, the school was entirely based at the former grammar school site in St James's Road and the former high school site in Priory Road was abandoned.
The expanded school was officially opened on 20 October 1995 by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury. The former Girls High School buildings were demolished at the beginning of the following year.
Plans were unveiled in June 2008 for the school to receive academy status, sponsored by the Oasis Community Learning Trust, though these plans failed to materialize and were scrapped in March 2009.
In February 2017, plans to convert the school into an academy were revived, with Castle High School set to join a new multi-academy trust in the north of the borough sponsored by Dudley College, alongside Holly Hall School, Hillcrest School, and High Arcal School. [3] The academy was launched later that year, with the school changing its name in September 2018. [2]
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