Education
Fox Hollies Road and Walmley Ash Road house several nurseries such as the Paint Pot Nursery, Seesaw Day Nursery, Little Hollies Nursery and the nurseries run by the Shrubbery School and Walmley Infant School.
There are numerous primary schools located within Walmley. The first school to be established in the area was a charity school. Founded in 1792, it was financed from funds impounded by the Courts in respect to acts of alleged mismanagement by the Sutton Corporation. It was constructed on the area known as Beyond The Wood along with an adjacent house for the school headmistress. The school had a capacity of 60 children until 1851, when it was moved to a larger school was built next to the church. The buildings were converted into two cottages. This was known as Walmley Corporation School.
Walmley First School on Walmley Ash Road was built in 1956, when the infants transferred from the old village school to the premises. The juniors remained in the old school prior to the building of Walmley Middle School in 1974. The land they are built on was once occupied by an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War II. These two schools are now Walmley Infants School and Walmley Junior School and are run by the Birmingham Local Education Authority. Walmley Infants School has a pupil capacity of 270 children. It is grant maintained, as is Walmley Junior School which has a pupil capacity of 356.
The Deanery Church of England Infants and Junior School on Fox Hollies Road is also grant maintained. The school was built in 1980 with construction commencing on March 1, 1979. It was originally two schools, however, merged in the 1990s. The Little Hollies Nursery was opened by the Bishop of Aston for the school in 1998.
There is a private primary school also located in Walmley, on Walmley Ash Road. The Shrubbery School was founded in 1930 by Janice Rankin. It features a nursery, infants and juniors department. The Shrubbery School building is Grade B locally listed.
There are no secondary schools in Walmley, however, Bishop Walsh Catholic School is located near the border of Walmley on Wylde Green Road in the west. Two comprehensive schools are also located in nearby Falcon Lodge.
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