Willenhall School Sports College

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name = Willenhall School Sports College


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type = Community Comprehensive school
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head_label = Headteacher
head = Mrs Vicki Till
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specialist = Sports College
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street = Furzebank Way (Rear Entrance via Bentley Lane)
city = Lodge Farm, Willenhall
county = West Midlands
country = England flagicon|England
postcode = WV12 4BD
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LEA = Metropolitan Borough of Walsall
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staff = 150+
enrollment = 1,600+
gender = Co-educational
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upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.willenhall.walsall.sch.uk/
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Willenhall School Sports College, is a senior school on the Lodge Farm estate in Willenhall. It is the biggest school in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall with over 1600 pupils and 150 staff. The school is a specialist Sports College, its second status is as a Science College.

The school day begins at 8.30am and finishes early at 2.40pm, however extra-curricular clubs continue until 5.25pm.

The school, which is headed by Vicki Till, has its own community centre which includes a fitness suit.

According to Government stastics the school was in the 2007 GCSE Results under achieving, but was ranked in the middle of fellow senior schools in Walsall.

The 2008 GCSE results were the schools best ever. The schools PE results, a subject which every pupil has to sit at GCSE Level, were within the top 5 in the country, with nearly 90% of pupils gaining a Grade 'C' or above. Overall 53% of pupils achieved a 5 Grade A*-C at GCSE. In A Level results, 94% of students passed their exams.

Houses

Pupils are split into one of eight houses. Whilst pupils in Year Seven have their own form, pupils in Years Eight - Eleven are in mixed year forms. Each house is made up of six forms.The houses and heads of house are:
* MacArthur - Ms J Caddick
* Owens - Mr I Williams
* Pattison - Miss E Kinnaird
* Ramsey - Ms H Lyonette
* Redgrave - Mr R Porter
* Thompson - Ms P Sembhi
* Union - Mrs A Nelder/Mr Jones^
* Wright - Ms E Hopton

^ = Maternity cover.