Education
Pelsall is currently home to three primary schools: St Michael's C of E Primary, Pelsall Village School and Ryders Hayes School (now an Academy), and First Friends Day Nursery located at Pelsall Education Development Centre.
Pelsall was previously home to Pelsall Comprehensive School, which opened in the autumn of 1963 as an 11-15 secondary modern school before adopting 13-18 comprehensive status in September 1972. The transfer age was reduced to 11 in September 1986 under Walsall's reorganisation of education in the former Aldridge-Brownhills area but falling pupil numbers led to its closure in July 1994.
The old Pelsall Comprehensive buildings are now home to Rushall JMI School, Education Walsall offices and a teacher training centre.
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