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The school's current head teacher is Caroline Badyal. She arrived on a secondment from the Dormston School in Sedgley (where she had been a deputy head teacher for four years and a member of staff for 12 years) in September 2002, and received the job on a permanent basis in April 2003.
It will be sponsored by the Grace Charitable Trust. The main sponsor is businessman Eric Payne, who was born in Sandwell, and moved his family conduit business to Wales. As an Academy, it is independent, with limited power remaining with the local authority.
In September 2008, the school officially became Q3 Academy, moving into a new school building within the original school's ground at the beginning of the summer term in April 2010.
The first GCSE students to leave the academy in July 2009 achieved impressive grades, with 44% gaining five or more GCSEs at U or above. This placed it as third of Sandwell's 17 secondary schools.
On 11 November 2010, HRH the Earl of Wessex officially opened the Academy.
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