Coppice Performing Arts School is an 11–18 mixed

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and

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with academy status in

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, West Midlands, England. The school has a resource base for students with moderate learning difficulties. It has playing fields, a theatre and dance studio. The school also offers extended school programmes within the local community.

History

Coppice was designated as a

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school in September 2003. It became an

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in 2018, as part of a

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, Central Learning Partnership Trust. The school has the Artsmark Gold award and Investors in People standard. Coppice is involved in the Sport in the Community programme, with a co-ordinator in school two days a week. The school's sixth form works with Heath Park School & Moseley Park School, a number of subjects being shared across the three schools.

Academic performance and inspections

In 2014, the school was inspected by

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and judged to Require Improvement. In 2016, it was again judged to Require Improvement. In 2022, it was judged Good. At

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, the school's

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in 2023 was average. 5% of children at the school that year were entered for the

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, compared to 26% in state schools in Wolverhampton as a whole and 39% nationally. 39% of children at the school that year achieved grade 5 or higher in English and mathematics GCSEs, the same figure as in Wolverhampton as a whole, and compared to 45% nationally. The school's Attainment 8 score that year was 48, compared to 46 in both Wolverhampton as a whole and nationally.

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* Secondary schools in Wolverhampton Academies in Wolverhampton {{WestMidlands-school-stub