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in September 1975, nine years after proposals to merge the two schools were first made. From this date onwards, boys and girls aged 12–18 years were taught in the buildings of both the former grammar school and the high school. The old Park School buildings were retained for two years as an annexe of
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The school traditionally served the 11-18 range, but from September 1972 it served pupils aged 12–18 due to a local reorganisation of education. Despite being a single sex school, the school co-hosted many dramatic and musical productions with the Boys' Grammar School, and by the 1960s boys and girls
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buildings were expanded between 1990 and 1995, leaving the former high school buildings disused after July 1995, although a sports hall which had existed on the site since about 1960 was retained for more than a decade afterwards, with a new entrance being built from the old grammar school site to
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being opened on the site in September 2012. Although the main school building was demolished, during the site's use as a car park the original wall and site entrance on Ednam Road were retained.
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Dudley Girls High School served Dudley and its surrounding area for 65 years, before it merged with the grammar school - as well as the Park Secondary Modern School - to form
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Dudley council had considered using the old high school as council offices, but these plans were scrapped in favour of demolition, which took place in early 1996.
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By the mid-1980s, further plans for school reorganisation were afoot, and another merger came in September 1989, this time when the Dudley School merged with
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pupils upon that school's phased closure, and the creation of the new school was completed in September 1990 with the arrival of some pupils from the closed
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was a selective higher education school which provided education for girls aged 11–18 years.
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The site of the school was converted into public car park in 1997, with a campus of
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from the two schools were taught together for some subjects at sixth form level.
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Grammar school in Dudley, Worcestershire/West Midlands, England
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Dudley Girls' High School: A Portrait of a School 1881-1975
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Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
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1975 (merged with Dudley Boys Grammar School to form
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Dudley
West Midlands
England
Coordinates
52°30′42″N 2°04′58″W / 52.5118°N 2.0829°W / 52.5118; -2.0829
Grammar school
The Dudley School
County Borough of Dudley
Dudley
England
Dudley Grammar School
The Dudley School
The Blue Coat School
Castle High School
Sir Gilbert Claughton School
Mons Hill School
grammar school
Dudley College
Marion Richardson

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