| Coppice Performing Arts School | |
| Motto: | Foundations for Excellence |
| Postcode: | WV11 2QE |
| Country: | England |
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| Trust: | Central Learning Partnership Trust[1] |
| Urn: | 145114 |
| Ofsted: | Yes |
| Head Of School: | Georgetta Holloway[2] & Claire Gilbert |
| Age Range: | 11–18 |
| Enrolment: | 998 |
| Capacity: | 1009 |
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Coppice Performing Arts School is an 11–18 mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.
The school has a resource base for students with moderate learning difficulties. It has playing fields, a theatre and dance studio. The school also offers extended school programmes within the local community.
Coppice was designated as a Performing Arts school in September 2003. It became an academy in 2018, as part of a multi-academy trust, Central Learning Partnership Trust.[1]
The school has the Artsmark Gold award and Investors in People standard. Coppice is involved in the Sport in the Community programme, with a co-ordinator in school two days a week.
The school's sixth form works with Heath Park School & Moseley Park School, a number of subjects being shared across the three schools.
In 2014, the school was inspected by Ofsted and judged to Require Improvement.[3] In 2016, it was again judged to Require Improvement.[4] In 2022, it was judged Good.[1]
At GCSE, the school's Progress 8 benchmark in 2023 was average.[5] 5% of children at the school that year were entered for the English Baccalaureate, compared to 26% in state schools in Wolverhampton as a whole and 39% nationally.[5] 39% of children at the school that year achieved grade 5 or higher in English and mathematics GCSEs, the same figure as in Wolverhampton as a whole, and compared to 45% nationally.[5] The school's Attainment 8 score that year was 48, compared to 46 in both Wolverhampton as a whole and nationally.[5]