St Michael’s Abbey School

The rebranded St Michael’s Abbey School in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire is to open in September, the Hereford Times has reported.

St Michael’s College, as it then was, was closed after the 2020 Covid pandemic and was sold last year. The building is being extensively refurbished, with classrooms kitted out with advanced technology and modern teaching and sports facilities created. The school is set in more than 22 acres and has 72,172 square feet of accommodation.

It will reopen as a co-educational independent day and boarding school for UK and international pupils aged 13 to 19.

The school will initially open with a small cohort, mainly consisting of pupils in Years 9 and 10. As the roll increases year on year, the maximum number of pupils in each year will be 40, comprising two forms of 20. The school has a capacity for 200 pupils, 120 of which are anticipated to be boarders.

Robert Ford, founding headteacher of the school said: “As a Shropshire boy and someone with family across the Marches counties, mid-Wales and the West Midlands, this really feels like coming home and I am extremely proud to the founding headteacher of a school with a proud past and a bright future.”