St Edmund's Catholic Academy

St Edmund's Catholic Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in the Compton area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands England The Building Schools for the Future program invested £7.9 million of its £300 million budget into improving the school. A further £5 million was contributed by Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and Redrow Homes, which used parts of the site to create a training ground and new homes, respectively. The new school building was completed in September 2013.[1][2]

St Edmund's Catholic Academy
Address
Compton Park, Compton Road West

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WV3 9DU

Coordinates52.5903°N 2.1619°W / 52.5903; -2.1619
Information
TypeAcademy
Motto"To Love and Serve the Lord"
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic
Department for Education URN139891 Tables
PrincipalMrs M Hazeldine
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 19
Websitehttp://www.stedmunds.org/

The name of the school comes from the influence of St. Edmund Campion (1540 – 1581),[3] an English Jesuit priest and martyr. Its motto is "To Love and Serve the Lord".

Consortium

St. Edmund's is in a consortium with both St Peter's Collegiate School and Wolverhampton Girls' High School. St. Edmund's has links with its feeder schools:[4]

St. Anthony's (in Fordhouses)
St. Bernadette’s (in Wombourne)
St. Christopher’s (in Codsall in Staffordshire)
SS Peter and Paul
SS. Mary & John’s
St. Michael’s (in Penn)
St. Teresa’s (in Parkfields)

References

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