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Article: Reunion marks 50th anniversary School Of The Week Teach Midlands SWANSHURST SCHOOL, BROOK LANE, BILLESLEY
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- July 3, 2007
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A GIRLS' school in Birmingham is looking to the future as it
brings its 50th anniversary celebrations to a close.
Swanshurst School has been operating on its site in Brook Lane,
Billesley, since September 1956, when it began life as a girls'
grammar.
Government inspectors who visited the 1,800-pupil school last year
reported that it was continuing to improve, boosted by obtaining
specialist science status in 2003.
Those improvements have seen a steady rise in Swanshurst's exam
results, including its benchmark five or more A* to C grades at GCSE
soaring from 56 per cent to 69 per cent over the last two years.
The school has understandably been looking to the past during
recent months as ...