Great Wyrley High School


Great Wyrley Academy is an academy and a sixth form located in Great Wyrley in the English county of Staffordshire.
Formerly a state ran community school under Staffordshire, Great Wyrley was converted to an Academy for the academic year 2018/19 following a period of Ofsted special measures, and joined the Windsor Academy Trust. Great Wyrley Academy is located at the extreme south of the Staffordshire border with the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, and therefore the school educates pupils from both areas. It has played a major role in the village for many years and are known for their music and performance events throughout the year.

Academics

Great Wyrley Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. Students can also study vocational courses at South Staffordshire College as part of their GCSE timetable.
Sixth Form is run as a collegiate with Cheslyn Hay Academy. Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and BTECs.

Facilities

The school has facilities including 35+ classrooms, 8 science laboratories, 6 computer rooms, 2 design and technology workshops, creative art suites, a 300 seat theatre, a sports gym, a sixth form centre and a swimming pool.

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