 A Science and Technology block was built in 1970 prior to the amalgamation of the boys' and girls' schools.For a number of years, a co-educational high school was run on the premises that had once been the girls' grammar school, while the former boys' grammar school premises housed West Park Sixth Form College, which closed in 1992.In September 1992, the modern Holly Lodge officially began when three schools in West Smethwick merged.