Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School is a

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secondary school and

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, located in

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in the West Midlands of England. The school opened in the 1960s and is named after 19th century Catholic cleric Stuart Bathurst, and is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham. It is situated on the A461 Wood Green near Wednesbury's border with

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and junction 9 of the M6 motorway. Most of its pupils are from Wednesbury and neighbouring towns including

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and Walsall. Previously a

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administered by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, in April 2020 Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by The St John Bosco Multi-Academy Company. The school is a specialist Arts College.Official school website
accessed 20 April 2014. Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School offers GCSEs, BTECs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.

Notable former pupils

* Mark Lewis-Francis (b. 1982) – athlete, sprinter * Simon Johnson (b. 1983) – footballer, coach

References

External links

Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School official website
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