Sandwell Academy is a

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

and

sixth form In the education systems of Barbados, England, Jamaica, Northern Ireland, Trinidad and Tobago, Wales, and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepa ...

with academy status located in

West Bromwich West Bromwich ( ), commonly known as West Brom, is a market town in the borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Staffordshire, it is northwes ...

in the West Midlands,

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School

The school opened in 2006 and has since opened a new, on-site building with various fitness, IT and classroom facilities. The school is sponsored by the

Worshipful Company of Mercers The Mercers' Company, or the Worshipful Company of Mercers, is a livery company of the City of London in the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, and ranks first in the order of precedence of the Companies. Mercer comes from the Latin for merch ...

Thomas Telford School Thomas Telford School is a City Technology College in Telford, Shropshire and is sponsored by The Mercers Company and Tarmac Holdings Limited. History The school was founded in 1991 as the eighth of fifteen specialist City Technology College ...

, HSBC Education Trust,

Tarmac Group Tarmac Group Limited was a British building materials company headquartered in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. It produced road surface, road surfacing and heavy building materials including Construction aggregate, aggregates, concrete, cement ...

and

West Bromwich Albion F.C. West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the Englis ...

The school has specialisms in Sport and Business Enterprise and has additional facilities to support the specialisms. Sandwell Academy operates a wide catchment area which includes all of West Bromwich and the entirety of

Sandwell Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough ...

. The school achieved an "Outstanding" rating in its most recent

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inspection (2014). Notable former pupils include

Jerome Sinclair Jerome Terence Sinclair (born 20 September 1996) is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward. He represented England up to under-17 level. Jerome spent his youth at West Bromwich Albion and Liverpool, making his senio ...

Joe Fraser Joe Fraser (born 6 December 1998) is an English artistic gymnast. He is the 2022 European all-around and parallel bars champion and the 2019 world champion on the parallel bars. He is the first British gymnast to ever win gold in these event ...

and

Morgan Rogers Morgan Elliot Rogers (born 26 July 2002) is an English professional association football, footballer who plays as an Midfielder, attacking midfielder for club Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa and the England national football team, England nationa ...

References

External links

Sandwell Academy official website
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