| Shire Oak Academy | |||||||||
| Coordinates: | 52.6358°N -1.9206°W | ||||||||
| Executive Headteacher: | Annabel Stoddart | ||||||||
| Head Label: | Associate Headteacher | ||||||||
| Head: | Neal Critchley | ||||||||
| Urn: | 136620 | ||||||||
| Gender: | Mixed | ||||||||
| Lower Age: | 11 | ||||||||
| Upper Age: | 18 | ||||||||
| Website: | http://www.shireoakacademy.co.uk/ | ||||||||
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The Shire Oak Academy (formerly Shire Oak School and Shire Oak Grammar School) is a coeducational academy school (age range 11 - 18) in Walsall Wood, West Midlands, England. More recently, the name was changed to Shire Oak Academy.http://www.shire-oak.walsall.sch.uk/
Originally a leading grammar school, along with many other secondary schools in the West Midlands Shire Oak became a comprehensive school in 1970, merging at the time with Walsall Wood Secondary Modern School.[1]
It is one of two secondary schools providing services for the people of Walsall Wood, it also provides schooling for the Aldridge and Brownhills areas.[2]