Sarum Academy (formerly Salisbury High School) is a

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with academy status in

Salisbury Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wi ...

, Wiltshire, England. The school is on the west side of Salisbury, on Bemerton Heath.

History

The first buildings on the site were opened in 1957 for boys of St Thomas's School in central Salisbury, which at that time was a Church of England

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; after the buildings were extended in the early 1960s the rest of the boys' school moved there. Westwood County Girls' Secondary Modern School was opened on an adjoining site in 1958, and in 1973 the two schools merged to form Westwood St. Thomas's School, which became a

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. From 1997 the school was called Salisbury High School. The school converted to academy status in 2010 and reopened as Sarum Academy. Since November 2017 it has been sponsored by Magna Learning Partnership, alongside Wyvern St Edmund's and Salisbury Sixth Form College in the Salisbury area, and The Trafalgar School at Downton.

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* Academies in Wiltshire Educational institutions established in 2010 2010 establishments in England Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Salisbury Secondary schools in Wiltshire Schools in Salisbury {{Wiltshire-school-stub