Formerly a state school known as Woodhouse High School, it was opened in 1971 as Tamworth's first purpose-built mixed comprehensive high school. The school was one of the first in Staffordshire to gain the prestigious Staffordshire Partnership Award for outstanding school industry links. After being placed in special measures by OFSTED in 2007, the school continued to improve its GCSE results for three years and currently around 80% of pupils achieve the government's target of 5 A*-C grades at GCSE. The changeover to Landau Forte briefly provided the school with better results before dipping for two years in succession like many academies nationwide. The same benchmark for 5 A* to C GCSE results including English and Maths then showed a drop to 42% in 2012 and a further decrease to 37% in 2013 with the school once again performing in line with the old Woodhouse High School despite the massive investment, restructuring and rebranding. The school was renamed in 2007 from 'Woodhouse High School' to 'Woodhouse Business and Enterprise College' where the school specialized in Business Studies classes. The school was a member of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. As a part of Building Schools for the Future programme, Landau Forte Charitable Trust took over the management of the school and the school became an Academy in September 2010. Pupils and staff moved into a custom-built facility in September 2011, opened officially on 21 September by the Duchess of Gloucester. Simultaneously, the Sixth Forms of the other Tamworth schools - QEMS, The Rawlett School, Belgrave High School and Wilnecote High School closed in 2011 and re-opened at the new Landau Forte Sixth Form next to Queen Elizabeth's Mercian School and South Staffordshire College in the town centre.
Facilities
Facilities include the school's sports centre, floodlit astroturf playing surface and tennis courts open to both students and the local community after school hours.
Incidents
There have been multiple reported incidents occurring around or inside the Academy, most with students involved. In 2015, a female student was spotted with multiple knives on Academy grounds. A police inquiry was opened shortly after the incident. In September 2016, a female student, Demmi Coplin was assaulted by another female student, Jessica Charlotte Ramsell just outside the Academy grounds and a video of the fight was posted online, being removed shortly after. It gained national media attention. In March 2017, an unknown man was caught outside the academy masturbating by a student's mother. The same type of incident occurred later in the month although it is assumed that the public indecency was committed by a different perpetrator.
