The author of the edit of 10 January 2023 (hereinafter "M") was part of the School's first intake in September 1959 and left in July 1966 (to go to university in October 1966).
[3] The details of the comprehensivisation of Wednesfield's three secondary schools are based on a conversation with the late Mr W N White around the time it happened.
The grammar school moved to Lichfield Road, Wednesfield in September 1960.
In addition, some pupils arrived into the Second and Third Years, transferred from various secondary modern schools.
The school acquired a Deputy Headmaster, Mr L H Morris, and a Senior Mistress, Miss M Waite.
Those generally in the higher streams took GCE O-Level at the end of the Fourth Year, and if successful went into the Lower Sixth (skipping being Fifth-Years).
The Sixth General allowed pupils who had not got entirely satisfactory O-Level grades to improve their position.
The Sixth Lower and Sixth Upper provided a two-year course from O-Level standard to GCE A-Level, usually in three subjects plus General Studies A-Level (which proved not to be a "soft" subject).
(2) It allowed pupils, around November of the first term, to take entrance and scholarship examinations that were set by Oxford and Cambridge Colleges; this timing was in line with the then traditional expectations of at least the Oxford men's colleges, who made effectively final offers around the end of the term (unconditional or merely requiring Oxford's statutory minimum requirements).
(These awards amounted to a substantial supplement to the means-tested maintenance grants from Local Education Authorities given to university students in those days of £50-£370/annum, university fees being paid directly by the Authority.
Those pupils who had done a Fourth-to-Sixth-Lower jump could still arrive at university at a typical age of 18, despite having spent three years as Sixth-Formers.
Mr White died only in October 2009, in his nineties, and was obituarised in the Wolverhampton Express and Star (obituary apparently no longer online).