Four Dwellings Academy
Academy in Quinton, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
52°27′20″N 2°00′11″W / 52.4556°N 2.003°W / 52.4556; -2.003Four 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
- David Allen Green, lawyer and writer; legal correspondent for the Financial Times
- Joleon Lescott, Aaron Lescott, Daniel Sturridge, Temitope Obadeyi, Stephen Turnbull, Amari'i Bell - Professional footballers
References
- ^ "A thousand years of Brum". www.qlhs.org.uk. Archived from the original on 29 January 2004.
- ^ "Birmingham schools get top priority". Birmingham Evening Despatch. No. 19, 642. 17 July 1954. p. front. Retrieved 29 December 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Reflecting on half a century". Archived from the original on 15 May 2007. Retrieved 2 December 2008.
External links
- Official school website
- QCA website
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