Smith's Wood Academy (formerly Smith's Wood School and then Smith's Wood Sports College) is a

co-educational 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 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 ...

located in

Smith's Wood Smith's Wood is a suburban civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands of England. It is known best for its schools and ancient woodland. The civil parish has a population of 10,476, according to the 2011 census. No ...

in the West Midlands of England. Smith's Wood School was awarded specialist

Sports College Sports Colleges are senior secondary schools which promote sports alongside secondary education. United Kingdom Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The programme enabled sec ...

status in September 2006 and was renamed Smith's Wood Sports College. Formerly a community school administered by

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Solihull Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local govern ...

, in April 2017 Smith's Wood Sports College converted to academy status and was renamed Smith's Wood Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust.

Teaching

Smith's Wood Academy offers

GCSEs The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September 1986 and its first exams taken in 1988. State schools ...

and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.

History

Fire in 1977

A fire on Saturday 1 October 1977 destroyed changing rooms.''Birmingham Weekly Mercury'' Sunday 2 October 1977, page 3

References

External links

Smith's Wood Academy official website
Academies in Solihull Arson in 1977 School buildings in the United Kingdom destroyed by arson Schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull {{WestMidlands-school-stub