Shire Oak Academy
Location
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Coordinates52°38′09″N 1°55′14″W / 52.6358°N 1.9206°W / 52.6358; -1.9206
Information
TypeAcademy
Department for Education URN136620 Tables
HeadteacherNeal Critchley
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Websitehttp://www.shireoakacademy.co.uk/

The Shire Oak Academy (formerly Shire Oak School and Shire Oak Grammar School) is a coeducational academy school (age range 1118) 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 people of Walsall Wood, it also provides schooling for the Aldridge and Brownhills areas.[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. 25 January 1974. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  2. "School location". Shire-oak.walsall.sch.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  3. My Old School - Taking The Celebrity Register Archived 2010-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
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