 The school was built to serve the adjacent Pheasey Estate, and opened in 1958 under the same headmastership as Aldridge Grammar School.In 1960 it had its own headmaster, Mr. Tyas, Deputy Head, Mr Brown as an 11-15 plus 1 year GCE O Level secondary modern school for 300 pupils before converting to a 13-18 comprehensive in September 1972 under the reorganisation of schools in Aldridge-Brownhills, there urban district that was absorbed into the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in 1974.However, it reorganised into an 11-18 school in September 1986, and has retained that age range ever since.