Tividale High School
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Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy is an academy for secondary aged pupils located in Tividale
Tividale
- History :The village was in the parish of St Michael named after the church built there. It was created in 1878 as an extension of the town of Tipton in the county of Staffordshire, England...

, Sandwell
Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands with a population of around 289,100, and an area of . The borough is named after Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of both the Black Country, and the West Midlands conurbation, encompassing the urban towns of Blackheath,...

, in the 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...

 of 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 was built by Tipton County Borough Council
Tipton
Tipton is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands, England, with a population of around 47,000. Tipton is located about halfway between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is a part of the Black Country....

 in 1956 as Tividale Secondary Modern School to serve the expanding Tividale area which by this date had expanded beyond Tipton's borders into Dudley.

The school was controlled by Warley CB
County Borough of Warley
Warley was a county borough and civil parish forming part of the West Midlands conurbation, England, and geographical county of Worcestershire. It was formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the municipal boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis Warley was a...

 council from 1966 to 1974, despite existing within the Tipton
Tipton
Tipton is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands, England, with a population of around 47,000. Tipton is located about halfway between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is a part of the Black Country....

 council area that was almost entirely placed in West Bromwich
West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, England. It is north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 London-to-Birkenhead road. West Bromwich is part of the Black Country...

, as was the Dudley section of Tividale. During this time its status changed to comprehensive and it became Tividale Comprehensive School.

Since 1974, it has been controlled by Sandwell
Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands with a population of around 289,100, and an area of . The borough is named after Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of both the Black Country, and the West Midlands conurbation, encompassing the urban towns of Blackheath,...

 council. Since then, its identity has been even more complicated by the fact that it exists in the modern Oldbury
Oldbury, West Midlands
Oldbury is a town in the West Midlands in England. It is a part of the Black Country and the administrative centre of the borough of Sandwell.-Local government:...

 B69 postal district, rather than the Tipton DY4 postal district, as does the bulk of Tividale; none of it is in the modern Dudley borough or postal district.

Another name change came when in September 1997 when it became Tividale High School. This arrangement lasted eight years until it received Art College specialist status in September 2005 becoming Tividale Community Arts College.

The summer of 2006 saw 26% of GCSE students attain 5 grades at C or above. By 2009, this figure had improved to 42%. In September 2009 the pupils came back to school which was then renamed Ormistion Sandwell Community Academy.

In 2010, the first year of the new academy saw 70% of students attain 5 grades at C or above, and 50% of students achieving 5 A*-C grades including English and Maths. These results now place the academy as one of the top 5 schools in Sandwell, and the highest achieving Ormiston Academy in the country.

It hosts annual trips for well behaved students, including trips to Alton Towers
Alton Towers
Alton Towers is a theme park and resort located in Staffordshire, England. It attracts around 2.7 million visitors per year making it the most visited theme park in the United Kingdom. Alton Towers is also the 9th most visited theme park in Europe...

 and Drayton Manor
Drayton Manor Theme Park
Drayton Manor Theme Park is a theme park, resort & zoo in the grounds of the former Drayton Manor, near Tamworth in Staffordshire, England.Drayton Manor is best known because it is a theme park and zoo which attracts around 1.4 million people a year. The attraction has a wide selection of rides set...

theme parks.

It became Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy in September 2009, on being removed from local authority control and receiving funding from the private sector.

It is now planned that the school will be rebuilt.
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