Coppice Performing Arts School
Coppice Performing Arts School is an 11–18 mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. The school has a resource base for students with moderate learning difficulties. It has playing fields, a theatre and dance studio. The school also offers extended school programmes within the local community.[clarification needed] HistoryCoppice was designated as a Performing Arts school in September 2003.[citation needed] It became an academy in 2018, as part of a multi-academy trust, Central Learning Partnership Trust.[1] The school has the Artsmark Gold award and Investors in People standard. Coppice is involved in the Sport in the Community programme, with a co-ordinator in school two days a week. The school's sixth form works with Heath Park School & Moseley Park School, a number of subjects being shared across the three schools. Academic performance and inspectionsIn 2014, the school was inspected by Ofsted and judged to Require Improvement.[3] In 2016, it was again judged to Require Improvement.[4] In 2022, it was judged Good.[1] At GCSE, the school's Progress 8 benchmark in 2023 was average.[5] 5% of children at the school that year were entered for the English Baccalaureate, compared to 26% in state schools in Wolverhampton as a whole and 39% nationally.[5] 39% of children at the school that year achieved grade 5 or higher in English and mathematics GCSEs, the same figure as in Wolverhampton as a whole, and compared to 45% nationally.[5] The school's Attainment 8 score that year was 48, compared to 46 in both Wolverhampton as a whole and nationally.[5] References
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