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It was planned to open as Fullbrook Senior Boys' and Girls' School. However, After the death of Joseph Alexander Leckie , a politician who had been Mayor of Walsall, Chairman of the Education Committee and Member of Parliament for Walsall, the Education Committee renamed the school in memory of him.
In its first year of opening, there were 421 applicants for the 168 (raised to 192 due to demand) places on offer for Year 7 students. The number was subsequently reduced back to 168. In 2009,it was the fifth-highest-ranking secondary school overall (and the second-highest-ranking state comprehensive) in the borough with 61% of GCSE students ...
E-ACT West Walsall Academy (WWA, formerly Alumwell Business and Enterprise College) is an 11–18 mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Walsall, West Midlands, England. It was a community school that was established in 1971 and had Business and Enterprise College status since September 2003.
Thomas Hughes was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1818. [4] [5] In 1842, he married Anne Tonks. [6] In their marriage certificate, [7] his profession is given as schoolmaster, and his father's, file-maker. From the mid-1850s, Hughes taught at Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall. [8] The 1851 census records a family of five children. [5]
It was built by the governors of Walsall Grammar School, for the use of the school and the public, and the minister was the headmaster of the school. The building was sold by the school in 1874 to the townspeople, and it was assigned a parish the following year, from the parishes of St Matthew and St Peter. [4] [5] The church was rebuilt in 1892.
The infant school teaches over 300 pupils with students' standards in national tests being in the highest five per cent of the country upon leaving. [4] Park Hall Junior School has over 400 pupils and it is the 9th ranked junior school out of 80 in the Walsall region in the aggregate score across the three test subjects of English, Maths and ...
In the years before becoming an academy, it was the biggest secondary school in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall with over 1600 pupils and 150 staff. The school day began at 8.30am and finished early at 2.40pm, however extra-curricular clubs continued until 5.25pm. Pupils were split into one of eight houses.
It opened in the autumn of 1963 as an 11–15 secondary modern school before adopting 13–18 comprehensive status in September 1972. The transfer age was reduced to 11 in September 1986 under Walsall's reorganisation of education in the former Aldridge-Brownhills area but falling pupil numbers led to its closure in July 1994. [31]