Holly Lodge High School
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| Established | 1922 as Holly Lodge, a grammar-type secondary school for girls; 1992 as Holly Lodge High School |
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| Type | Co-educational secondary comprehensive with specialist Science status |
| Headteacher | Mr P Shone |
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Holly Lane Smethwick West Midlands England |
| Local authority | Sandwell |
| DfE URN | 104018 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1326 |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | www |
Coordinates: 52°29′53″N 1°59′18″W / 52.49818°N 1.98831°W
Holly Lodge High School College of Science is a secondary school located in Smethwick, West Midlands, England.
It is located on Holly Lane on the middle point between Smethwick and Oldbury, near West Smethwick Park and West Park Road less than a mile from the M5. There are also entrances on Marshall Street and Forster Street. The school has a large percentage (65%) of pupils from Sikh, Hindu and Islamic communities. 23% of the school population are white.
The school was expanded in September 1992 when it took in the pupils of Smethwick Hall Boys School, which had closed at the end of the school year that July.
The current headteacher is Mr P Shone. Between September 2009 and August 2011, extensive refurbishment and some new building occurred on the site as part of the 'Building Schools of the Future' programme. A total of 23 million pounds was spent on improving the facilities.
It was originally a girls' and boys' grammar school. The girls' grammar school at Holly Lodge, formerly the home of the Downing family, opened in 1922, moving to a new building in 1927. The boys' grammar school opened in Holly Lodge, moving to a new building opposite the girls' school in 1932. A more detailed background to these early years can be found in The birth of an industrial grammar school:a study of the origins and early development of the Holly Lodge Grammar Schools in Smethwick (available in the Community History Reserve Collection at Sandwell Libraries). In 1940 the school was evacuated to avoid possible bombing. It settled in Newport Shropshire, sharing Adams Grammar School: AGS in the mornings and Holly Lodge in the afternoons.
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