Type Academy Phone +44 1902 368221 Number of students 1,430 Gender Mixed-sex education | Ages 11–18 Principal Mrs Jones Staff 500 | |
Vice Principal Mr K Harris and Mrs K Solway-Blower Location Furzebank Way (Rear Entrance via Bentley Lane)
Lodge Farm, Willenhall
West Midlands
WV12 4BD
England Website willenhalle-actacademy.org.uk Address Furzebank Way, Willenhall WV12 4BD, UK Similar West Walsall E‑ACT Ac, Walsall Academy, Coppice Performing Arts School, Wednesfi High Specialist, Joseph Leckie Academy Profiles | ||
Willenhall E-ACT Academy is a state secondary school in England, located on the Lodge Farm estate in Willenhall. It is the largest school in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall with over 1430 pupils and 150 staff. Its establishment as an academy sponsored by E-ACT took place in January 2012; prior to that, it was a specialist Sports College and Science College called Willenhall School Sports College (originally Willenhall Comprehensive School).
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Colleges
Willenhall E-ACT Academy has four "colleges": blue, green, red, and yellow. Each with their own point of contact, when you need to speak to somebody with any concerns. Siblings are in the same college so as to give the parents one person to contact. The colleges compete against each other in a wide variety of competitions both sporting and academic.The college system is seen by external observers to be extremely inefficient.
Results
According to Government statistics the school was in the 2007 GCSE Results under achieving, but was ranked in the middle of fellow senior schools in Walsall.
The 2009 GCSE results were the schools best ever. Overall 74% of pupils achieved 5 Grades A*-C at GCSE Level, with 34% achieving 5 including Maths and English. In A Level results, 94% of students passed their exams, with a total of 41 A Grades having been awarded.