- Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
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Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy Established 2009 Type Academy Religion Secular Principal Ms J. Farrell Chair of the Governors Joyce Hodgetts Specialism Arts College Location Lower City Road
Tividale
Oldbury
West Midlands
B69 2HE
EnglandLocal authority Sandwell Students 800 Gender Co-educational Ages 11–18 Houses Da Vinci, Picasso, Shakespeare, Dahl Website ormistonsandwell.org.uk Coordinates: 52°30′36″N 2°02′24″W / 52.510°N 2.040°W
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy is an academy for secondary aged pupils located in Tividale, Sandwell, in the West Midlands of England.
It was built by Tipton County Borough Council in 1956 as Tividale Secondary Modern School to serve the expanding Tividale area which by this date had expanded beyond Tipton's borders into Dudley.
The school was controlled by Warley CB council from 1966 to 1974, despite existing within the Tipton council area that was almost entirely placed in West Bromwich, as was the Dudley section of Tividale. During this time its status changed to comprehensive and it became Tividale Comprehensive School.
Since 1974, it has been controlled by Sandwell council. Since then, its identity has been even more complicated by the fact that it exists in the modern Oldbury B69 postal district, rather than the Tipton DY4 postal district, as does the bulk of Tividale; none of it is in the modern Dudley borough or postal district.
Another name change came when in September 1997 when it became Tividale High School. This arrangement lasted eight years until it received Art College specialist status in September 2005 becoming Tividale Community Arts College.
The summer of 2006 saw 26% of GCSE students attain 5 grades at C or above. By 2009, this figure had improved to 42%. In September 2009 the pupils came back to school which was then renamed Ormistion Sandwell Community Academy.
In 2010, the first year of the new academy saw 70% of students attain 5 grades at C or above, and 50% of students achieving 5 A*-C grades including English and Maths. These results now place the academy as one of the top 5 schools in Sandwell, and the highest achieving Ormiston Academy in the country.[1]
It hosts annual trips for well behaved students, including trips to Alton Towers and Drayton Manor theme parks.
It became Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy in September 2009, on being removed from local authority control and receiving funding from the private sector.
It is now planned that the school will be rebuilt.
References
- ^ Secondary schools in Sandwell, BBC News
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