Sarum Academy

Sarum Academy (formerly Salisbury High School) is a Church of England secondary school with academy status in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The school is on the west side of Salisbury, on Bemerton Heath.^[1]

Sarum Academy
Address
Westwood Road Salisbury , Wiltshire , SP2 9HS England
Coordinates	51°05′09″N 1°50′09″W
Information
Type	Academy
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	2010
Local authority	Wiltshire
Department for Education URN	136183 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Jonathan Curtis
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 19
Enrolment	608 (March 2023)
Website	www.sarumacademy.org

History

The first buildings on the site were opened in 1957 for boys of St Thomas's School in central Salisbury, which at that time was a Church of England secondary modern school; after the buildings were extended in the early 1960s the rest of the boys' school moved there.^[2][3] Westwood County Girls' Secondary Modern School was opened on an adjoining site in 1958, and in 1973 the two schools merged to form Westwood St. Thomas's School,^[4] which became a comprehensive school. From 1997 the school was called Salisbury High School.^[5]

The school converted to academy status in 2010 and reopened as Sarum Academy.^[6] Since November 2017 it has been sponsored by Magna Learning Partnership, alongside Wyvern St Edmund's and Salisbury Sixth Form College in the Salisbury area, and The Trafalgar School at Downton.^[7]