Sir Gilbert Claughton School

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Sir Gilbert Claughton School was a secondary school located in Dudley, England, in the Queen's Cross are of the town.

It opened in 1904 as the Dudley Upper Standard School, but after three years it became the Higher Elementary School. Another name change came in 1929, when it became the Dudley Intermediate School. In 1957, it adopted the Gilbert Claughton title. [1]

Its status changed to comprehensive in 1975 and falling numbers on the school roll saw it close in 1990. It was then turned into offices by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.

A new classroom block was added in the late 1950s, mostly for the teaching of Science and other practical subjects.

The school traditionally provided education for pupils mostly within the 11 to 18 age group, and at one stage the school included a unit for hearing impaired pupils. In its final 18 years, however, the school only educated pupils within the 12 to 16 age group, and its closure coincided with the end of the local authority's policy of pupils spending four years at secondary school instead of the traditional five years.