The school is centered on a large Victorian brick building in rural Staffordshire, just north of Wolverhampton.

St Dominic's was founded by the Dominican Sisters in 1920 as a small convent school for girls to train them in the "domestic arts".

Dominican Convent School opened with just half a dozen girls but grew steadily over the years.

Bargate was once a workhouse for the Penkridge Union during the Industrial Revolution and was sold to Wolverhampton wine merchant Louis Connolly in 1919.

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