St Edmund's Catholic Academy
St Edmund's Catholic Academy is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in the Compton area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands England The Building Schools for the Future program invested £7.9 million of its £300 million budget into improving the school. A further £5 million was contributed by Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club and Redrow Homes, which used parts of the site to create a training ground and new homes, respectively. The new school building was completed in September 2013.[1][2]
St Edmund's Catholic Academy | |
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Address | |
Compton Park, Compton Road West , , WV3 9DU | |
Coordinates | 52.5903°N 2.1619°W |
Information | |
Type | Academy |
Motto | "To Love and Serve the Lord" |
Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
Department for Education URN | 139891 Tables |
Principal | Mrs M Hazeldine |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 11 to 19 |
Website | http://www.stedmunds.org/ |
The name of the school comes from the influence of St. Edmund Campion (1540 – 1581),[3] an English Jesuit priest and martyr. Its motto is "To Love and Serve the Lord".
Consortium
St. Edmund's is in a consortium with both St Peter's Collegiate School and Wolverhampton Girls' High School. St. Edmund's has links with its feeder schools:[4]
- St. Anthony's (in Fordhouses)
- St. Bernadette’s (in Wombourne)
- St. Christopher’s (in Codsall in Staffordshire)
- SS Peter and Paul
- SS. Mary & John’s
- St. Michael’s (in Penn)
- St. Teresa’s (in Parkfields)