Frank F. Harrison Community School
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Frank F. Harrison Engineering College is a comprehensive secondary school located in Bloxwich
, Walsall
, West Midlands
, England
. It serves the south-western side of Bloxwich
which includes the areas of Beechdale
and Leamore
.
The school opened in 1965 and expansion work took place in 1968 and again in 1971. It has had higher pupil numbers since September 1992, when it took in most of the pupils from the closing Forest Comprehensive School
.
The head mistress is Jacqui Grace who took up the post in november 2009.
The college received an excellent OFSTED report in November 2006 which stated that it was a 'good school, with excellent capacity for improvement'.
In April 2009, it was announced that Frank F Harrison Engineering College would now be part of the first wave of Walsall's BSF programme.
Bloxwich
Bloxwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England, with a population of around 40,000 people.-Early history:Bloxwich has its origins at least as early as the Anglo-Saxon period, when the place name evidence suggests it was a small Mercian settlement named after the...
, Walsall
Walsall
Walsall is a large industrial town in the West Midlands of England. It is located northwest of Birmingham and east of Wolverhampton. Historically a part of Staffordshire, Walsall is a component area of the West Midlands conurbation and part of the Black Country.Walsall is the administrative...
, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It serves the south-western side of Bloxwich
Bloxwich
Bloxwich is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England, with a population of around 40,000 people.-Early history:Bloxwich has its origins at least as early as the Anglo-Saxon period, when the place name evidence suggests it was a small Mercian settlement named after the...
which includes the areas of Beechdale
Beechdale
Beechdale, originally named Gypsy Lane Estate, is a housing estate in Walsall, England, that was developed predominantly during the 1950s and 1960s....
and Leamore
Leamore
Leamore is a suburb of Walsall in the extreme north of the town on the border with Bloxwich. It is a mix of private and council housing built since the late 19th century...
.
The school opened in 1965 and expansion work took place in 1968 and again in 1971. It has had higher pupil numbers since September 1992, when it took in most of the pupils from the closing Forest Comprehensive School
Forest Comprehensive School
Forest Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Hawbush Road, Harden, Walsall, West Midlands, England.It was built during the 1950s to serve the council housing estates in the Blakenall Heath, Harden, Goscote and Coalpool areas, which had gradually developed since 1920, and was...
.
The head mistress is Jacqui Grace who took up the post in november 2009.
The college received an excellent OFSTED report in November 2006 which stated that it was a 'good school, with excellent capacity for improvement'.
In April 2009, it was announced that Frank F Harrison Engineering College would now be part of the first wave of Walsall's BSF programme.