Summerhill School (Kingswinford)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Summerhill School is a secondary school located in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England. It was built by Brierley Hill Urban District Council in about 1961 but was completely rebuilt in the early 2000s. It serves an area of Kingswinford which was mostly developed after the Second World War.

The Summerhill Secondary School was founded in September 1959. It originally occupied the buildings of the former Brierley Hill Grammar School in Mill Street Brierley Hill. This was its home for the first two years, the pupils being bused daily from Kingswinford, Wall Heath and Wordsley.

The school relocated to a site in Lodge Lane, Kingswinford, in September 1961, and has remained there ever since.

The catchment for the school is bounded in the south by Lawnswood Road (Wordsley), in the east by Stream Road and Moss Grove (Kingswinford) and in the north and west by the county boundary between West Midlands and Staffordshire.

The 1961 buildings were becoming increasingly dilapidated during the 1990s, and by September 2003 the entire school had been rebuilt.

One remaining building from the old complex, built in 1993 and known as C Block remains and was the subject of a bid to save it from demolition and reopen as a community arts centre. The plan was developed by local entrepreneur and ex-pupil John Hackett but opposition from Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council prevented the plans from going ahead.

At the time of writing, the school site consists of the new 2003 building and the increasingly dilapidated old C Block, for which a use has still not been found.