Established 2006 Religion Christian ethos Phone +44 121 329 4600 Founded 2006 | Type Secondary Headteacher Mr Darren Gelder Founder Lord Bob Edmiston | |
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Motto "To develop well mannered, bright students with a sense of values..." Location Chapelhouse Road, Chelmsley Wood
Solihull
West Midlands
B37 5JS
England Address Chapelhouse Rd, Birmingham B37 5JS, UK Similar John Henry Newman Catholic, Park Hall Academy, CTC Kingshurst Academy, Greenwo Academy, King Edward VI Sheldon | ||
Grace Academy is a non-selective co-educational secondary school within the English Academy programme, at Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, West Midlands.
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It opened in 2006 and replaced the old Whitesmore School. It is a specialist Business and Enterprise college.
Grace Academy Solihull is constituted as a company and registered charity under English law.
In 2009 the school achieved average results for Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4 but only 28% achieved 5 or more GCSEs grade C or above compared to a national average of 47.6%.
Controversy
On 20 August 2013 the school was among those named by The Independent newspaper and the British Humanist Association as adopting a policy similar in wording to the repealed anti-gay legislation Section 28.
Grace Foundation
The school is sponsored by Grace Foundation, a charity whose objects are "to advance for the public benefit education in the United Kingdom by promoting the establishment, maintenance, carrying on, management and development of schools with a Christian ethos and in accordance with Christian principles". Grace Foundation is endowed by Bob Edmiston, entrepreneur and founder of the evangelical international charity Christian Vision, who is a Governor of Grace Academy.