This article details a number of defunct schools that were once located in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
Founded in 1562, it was located in Dudley, Worcestershire, and opened in July 1898 on its final site in St James's Road.
12 years later Dudley Girls High School opened in nearby buildings in Priory Road.
Notable former pupils of Dudley Grammar School include Lionel Harry Butler (Principal Royal Holloway College 1973-81), Ian Serraillier (children's author who was an English teacher at the school 1939-1946), Martin Dunn (newspaper editor), Roger Cashmore, David Tristram and Hugh Walters.
The school's final head teacher was Mr Joseph Kenneth "Ken" West, who was head for the final four years until the merger following the retirement of Mr Alfred "Fred" Austin (born Fredi Stiller as a Jew in Czechoslovakia in 1928; and who became Fred Austin upon his adoption by a British family at the outbreak of World War II).
It was built in the 1950s in Eve Lane - on the border with Dudley - to serve a newly completed council housing estate which was developed on adjoining farmland.
However, the Flax Hall buildings were retained as an annexe to Sycamore Green until December 1991, when an extension to the main Sycamore Green site meant that all pupils were taught there and Flax Hall was converted into a community centre.
52°31′56″N 2°06′04″W / 52.5323°N 2.1012°W / 52.5323; -2.1012 The community centre was demolished in 2019 and by the middle of 2020 had been replaced with a new housing estate, built on what is now called Shearing Close.
It opened in September 1972 within the buildings of the former Hill & Cakemore Secondary Modern boys and girls schools situated on Long Lane.
It was abolished in July 1982, although the buildings remained as an annexe of Leasowes High School, mostly for the teaching of pupils at the lower end of the new 11-16 age range.
It was built around 1960 as a secondary modern school to serve the Wollaston area of the town, adopting comprehensive status in September 1975.
At the time of Ridgewood's formation, new buildings were added to the High Park site to accommodate the pupils from the old Longlands School.
Cradley High was a short-lived school, closing in July 2008 due to falling pupil numbers.
It was opened in April 1965 as Wrens Nest Secondary School, to replace Wolverhampton Street School (which had been open since 1880) in Dudley town centre, and gave education to pupils aged 11 to 16 years (with the starting age rising to 12 from September 1972).
Construction had started during 1963 with the intention of having the school open for the beginning of the academic year in September 1964, but it missed the target completion date by seven months.
On the introduction of comprehensive education across Dudley borough in September 1975, it was renamed Mons Hill School.
Soon afterwards, Mons Hill was widely regarded as the worst secondary school in the borough; pupil numbers fell and O-Level (GCSE from 1988) results were dismal.
However, in September 1990, it became a campus of Dudley College and a multi-million pound extension with high quality facilities for skilled trades such as construction, hairdressing and motor engineering, was completed in 1993.
The old buildings of St Edmund's have been retained and are currently used as Dudley Central Mosque, although there have been ongoing plans for it to be relocated to a new site in nearby Dixon's Green.
It served the Kates Hill area of the town and was built in 1840 along with the neighbouring parish church on St John's Road.
However, by the mid-1980s numbers were starting to fall and the sixth form centre had been axed, sparking fears that it would close.
It was then turned into offices by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, who designated it as the Claughton Centre.
It was originally a school for girls aged 11 upwards, but was reorganised to a 13-18 comprehensive in September 1972, when three-tier education was introduced in Halesowen.
The new school was located entirely at the Richmond site from its opening in September 1985, and the Walton buildings were taken over by Halesowen College, who retained it for 18 years before expanding their main Whittingham Road site, after which the Walton Campus was demolished and replaced by housing.