The School Today
September 2009 marked the school's 55th anniversary. Bournville School is now a Specialist Business and Enterprise College and took on the second specialism of Music College in 2007. It has established a Sixth Form Centre with from its own separate common room and study areas.
There are some 1,200 pupils.
Since 2004 the school has been classed as a High Performing Specialist School, due to the progress students have made in years seven to eleven.
In May 2011 the head teacher wrote to parents and carers that a sub-group of Governors had been considering becoming an Academy, and that the Governing Body had agreed to move on to the next stage of the Academy process which is to begin talks with the DFE and go to formal consultation with everyone involved.
Following a Governing Body meeting on 12 October 2011 the decision was made not to proceed with Academy Status for the time being as it was felt that the school was not yet ready for such a significant change.
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