Four Dwellings Academy Explained

Four Dwellings Academy
Coordinates:52.4556°N -2.003°W
Established:1940
Type:Academy
Head Label:Principal
Head:Claire Stoneman
Address:Dwellings Lane
City:Quinton, Birmingham
County:West Midlands
Country:England
Postcode:B32 1RJ
Dfeno:330/4005
Ofsted:yes
Urn:139047
Enrolment:600
Gender:Co-educational
Lower Age:11
Upper Age:16
Website:https://sites.google.com/a/aetinet.org/four-dwellings-academy/

Four Dwellings Academy (formerly Four Dwellings High School) is a co-educational school with academy status, located in the Quinton area of Birmingham, England. It opened in 2020 on Quinton Road West.[1] The old Upper School building on Dwellings Lane was opened in 1954 by Florence Horsbrugh, Minister of Education as the Four Dwellings Girls' School and catered for 600 pupils. On opening, the building had an entrance hall with murals and a goldfish pool, a theatre with facilities to build stage scenery and a "miniature" flat for domestic science classes.[2] The boys' school was situated in older buildings. The school went co-educational in 1970.[3] The school held specialist Science College status before converting to academy status in March 2013.

The academy is now situated solely on the old girls school building and has approximately 450 members.

Notable former pupils

References

  1. Web site: A thousand years of Brum . www.qlhs.org.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040129221402/http://www.qlhs.org.uk/oracle/earlydays/earlydays.htm . 2004-01-29.
  2. News: 17 July 1954 . Birmingham schools get top priority . front . . 19,642 . subscription . 29 December 2023 . British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Web site: Reflecting on half a century . 2 December 2008 . https://archive.today/20070515221113/http://archive.stourbridgenews.co.uk/2004/7/9/12465.html . 15 May 2007 . dead .

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