Meole Brace School is a
coeducational
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school in the suburb of
Meole Brace
Meole Brace, sometimes known locally as simply Meole (pronounced like ''meal''), is a south-western suburb of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
The Rea Brook, a tributary of the River Severn, flows through the area. The brook was in the past k ...
,
Shrewsbury, England. It is one of two state-funded secondary schools in South Shrewsbury and serves a wide catchment area which includes Meole Brace, areas of Belle Vue and Radbrook, as well as
Bayston Hill and some rural settlements south of Shrewsbury. There is also multiple school buses providing children in the north of the town with direct access to and from school
It previously held
Science College
Science Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics
Mathemati ...
specialist status and was awarded the
Sportsmark
Sportsmark is Sport England's accreditation scheme for secondary schools. The scheme recognises a school's out of hours sports provision. by the
Sports Council
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. Ofsted rated the school "Good" in 2015, paying special attention to the above average results in Religious Studies, Geography, Drama and Modern Foreign Languages at
GCSE level. The school also has Ofsted "Good" ratings in every category.
Previously a
community school administered by
Shropshire Council
Shropshire Council is the local authority of Shropshire, in England, comprising the ceremonial county of Shropshire except Telford and Wrekin. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combi ...
, in January 2019 Meole Brace School converted to
academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Central Shropshire Academy Trust.
As Meole Brace School does not have a
sixth form
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, students transfer to
Shrewsbury Sixth Form College,
Shrewsbury College or an
independent school. Still, Meole Brace - sometimes abbreviated to MBS - is the largest secondary school within Shrewsbury.
Notable former pupils
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Nick Beighton, Paralympic bronze medallist
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Joe Hart
Charles Joseph John Hart (born 19 April 1987) known professionally simply as Joe Hart is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership club Celtic.
He began his career at his hometown club Shrewsbury T ...
, footballer
*Adrian Spillett, 1998
BBC Young Musician of the Year
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The competition, a former member of the European Uni ...
winner
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Mason Springthorpe, footballer
*Tom Clarke,
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