Greenwood Academy, Birmingham

Greenwood Academy is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Castle Vale, Birmingham, England.

Greenwood Academy
Address
Farnborough Road
Castle Vale

Birmingham
,
West Midlands
,
B35 7NL

England
Coordinates52°31′12″N 1°46′56″W
Information
TypeAcademy
Department for Education URN139048 Tables
OfstedReports
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment871
Websitehttp://www.greenwoodacademy.org/

The school opened in new premises in 1967. The buildings were completed and officially opened in 1969. It was built to serve the large new housing estate which was in the final stages of construction at this time. Later the school gained Performing Arts College specialist status.

The school converted to academy status in January 2013. The school is sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET).The school faced much uncertainty when AET arranged a number of Head teachers. Then Mr Harry French was appointed Principal in June 2013 and immediately took action to solve the problems the school faced.[1] Under his leadership the school has been subject to a turnaround, with many esteemed visitors expressing compliments, echoing Lord Nash's comment "..the school oozes aspiration".[2] Mr French and the staff have re-established open events and have regained the confidence of the community. The school will start a new sixth form in September 2014 and the school is scheduled to be rebuilt, hopefully in 2017. In 2018, during the annual OFFSTED report, the school was rated as good, which was heavily debated by pupils.[3][4]

References
  1. "Greenwood Academy Principal Harry French: "We have tough decisions ahead"". Tyburn Mail.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "It's official: Greenwood gets green light for sixth form from September - Tyburn Mail". Tyburn Mail.
  4. "Greenwood Academy boost from Government's school building programme - Tyburn Mail". Tyburn Mail.
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