Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy

{{more citations needed|date=March 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} {{Infobox school | name = Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy | image = The Official School Logo of Our Lady and St. Chad Academy | image_size = | coordinates = {{coord|52.6110|-2.1083|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}} | motto = "Be The Best You Can Be" | established = | closed = | type = Academy | religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic | president = | head_label = Principal | head = Louisa Craig<ref name="GIAS">{{cite web |title=Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy |url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/141802 |website=Get information about schools |publisher=Gov.UK |accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref> | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = | chair = | founder = | address = Old Fallings Lane | city = Wolverhampton | county = West Midlands | country = England | postal_code = WV10 8BL<ref name="GIAS"/> | urn = 141802 | staff = | enrolment = | gender = Coeducational | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 18<ref name="GIAS"/> | houses = Bernadette, St. Peter, St. Catherine, Kolbe, Romero, Teresa | colours = Blue and Gold | publication = | free_label1 = | free_text1 = | free_label2 = | free_text2 = | free_label3 = | free_text3 = | website = [https://www.olsc.org.uk School website] }}

'''Our Lady and St. Chad Catholic Academy''' (A Specialist Sports College) is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the Fallings Park area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.

The Building Schools for the Future program invested £7 million into improving the school, which was completed in September 2013.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} The school was funded another £4.7 million in 2018 to build 14 new classrooms and science laboratories.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

Originally, the school was titled "Our Lady and St. Chad Catholic Sports College"; however, it gained academy status in 2015, partnering with three schools in Wolverhampton.<ref name="GIAS_old">{{cite web |title=Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Sports College |url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/104401 |website=Get information about schools |publisher=Gov.UK |accessdate=14 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="Acad_conv">{{cite web |last1=Cladingbowl |first1=Michael |title=Academy conversion and predecessor schools |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2459409 |publisher=Ofsted |accessdate=14 July 2020 |date=2015}}</ref>

The name of the school comes from the influence of St. Chad. The secondary building, the Marist Centre, was named after the Marist Brothers. The school was established in 1978 following the merger of St Chad's College, the Roman Catholic grammar school for boys established by the Marist Brothers, which was based at the Old Fallings Lane site, and Our Lady of Mercy girls' grammar school, situated near Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, and started by the Sisters of Mercy.

== Consortium and houses == OLSC consists of 4 house groups; Bernadette, Kolbe, Romero and Teresa.

As of Monday 2 March 2015, Our Lady and St. Chad officially became an academy along with St. Mary's, Holy Rosary and Corpus Christi Primary Schools to unite as one in the "Pope John XXIII Multi Academy".

== Curriculum == All students study English, Maths, Science, RE, PE, Geography, History, Modern Foreign Language, Computing, Music, Creative Media.

'''Year 9 and 10'''

All Students study English Literature, English Language, Maths, Combined Science, RE and PE, and can choose from additional subjects.

'''Year 11'''

All Students study English Literature, English Language, Maths, Combined Science, RE and PE, and can choose from additional subjects.

'''Year 12 and 13'''

Students have the choice of studying a range of subjects including A level, T level and BTEC. All sixth form students also study Social Justice.

==Alumni== * Robert Tombs (b. 1949) – historian of France

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{Official website|http://olsc.org.uk/|Our Lady and St. Chad Catholic Academy official website}}

Category:Secondary schools in Wolverhampton Category:Academies in Wolverhampton Category:Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham