A new academy for Birmingham

Birmingham City Council and ARK Schools have begun the consultation process towards opening St Alban's Academy, in place of St Alban's CE Specialist Engineering College, in September 2009.

St Alban's Academy will be a four-form entry secondary school plus a sixth form with 200 places. It will have mathematics and engineering as specialist subject areas.

We have ambitious targets to work towards over a five-year period: our principal target is for more than 80 per cent of secondary students to achieve at least five good GCSE passes, including English and mathematics.

St Alban's Academy will open in the existing school buildings and will have new, purpose-built accommodation on an expanded site including sporting facilities.

It will cease to be voluntary-aided but will continue to be a church school. It will serve its multi-faith community by providing an education of the highest quality in a context of Christian belief and practice.

The academy will be non-selective, but linked with two feeder primary schools (St Thomas's CE Primary and Christ Church CE Primary) whose pupils will have priority when applying to the academy. The academy sponsor is ARK Schools and it will be part of a network of ARK schools sharing curriculum, teaching and learning practices, pastoral practices and administrative services.

ARK Schools already runs several academies in London and plans to be running 12 by 2012. Find out more about ARK Schools with the navigation button in the top right hand corner.

For more information, or to register your interest, please contact:

Project director  sue.wooldridge@arkonline.org 07905 462 302
Project assistant lisa.knott@arkonline.org  020 7395 2073