Sarum Academy
Academy in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
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Sarum Academy (formerly Salisbury High School) is a Church of England secondary school with academy status in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The school is on the west side of Salisbury, on Bemerton Heath.[1]
| Sarum Academy | |
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| Location | |
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Westwood Road , , SP2 9HS England | |
| 51°05′09″N 1°50′09″W | |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
Religious affiliation | Church of England |
| Established | 2010 |
Local authority | Wiltshire |
| 136183 Tables | |
| Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Jonathan Curtis |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 19 |
| Enrolment | 608 (March 2023) |
| Website | www |
History
The first buildings on the site were opened in 1957 for boys of St Thomas's School in central Salisbury, which at that time was a Church of England secondary modern school; after the buildings were extended in the early 1960s the rest of the boys' school moved there.[2][3] Westwood County Girls' Secondary Modern School was opened on an adjoining site in 1958, and in 1973 the two schools merged to form Westwood St. Thomas's School,[4] which became a comprehensive school. From 1997 the school was called Salisbury High School.[5]
The school converted to academy status in 2010 and reopened as Sarum Academy.[6] Since November 2017 it has been sponsored by Magna Learning Partnership, alongside Wyvern St Edmund's and Salisbury Sixth Form College in the Salisbury area, and The Trafalgar School at Downton.[7]
