Moseley Park School

Moseley Park School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Bilston area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.[1]

Moseley Park School
Address
Holland Road

Bilston
Wolverhampton
,
West Midlands
,
WV14 6LU

England
Information
TypeAcademy
Department for Education URN138098 Tables
OfstedReports
Executive HeadteacherMrs Georgetta Holloway
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment728 as of April 2016
Websitehttp://www.moseleypark.org/

Admissions

Moseley Park converted to academy status in June 2012, and was previously a community school under the direct control of Wolverhampton City Council with specialist Technology College status. The school continues to coordinate with Wolverhampton City Council for admissions.

Moseley Park offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and BTECs. The sixth form provision is offered in conjunction with Heath Park School.[2]

History

Grammar school

Bilston Grammar School was a two-form entry grammar school built for the South East Divisional Executive of Staffordshire Education Committee in 1959.[3] Bilston Grammar School had started in 1947.[4] In 1966 it came under Wolverhampton Education Committee.

Bilston Girls' High School, formed in 1919, became a sixth form college, later part of Bilston Community College in 1983, which is now the Wellington Road Campus of the City of Wolverhampton College.

Comprehensive

In 1975 the school merged with Etheridge Secondary School (founded in 1937) to become Moseley Park Comprehensive.

Notable former pupils

Bilston Grammar School

Etheridge Secondary Modern School

References
  1. "Home". moseleypark.org.
  2. "Central Partnership".
  3. New Steel Construction
  4. Black Country History

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