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{{Infobox school
| name = Al-Hijrah School
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In September 2016, the school was at the centre of a legal battle over alleged sex discrimination and sought to prevent publication of an Ofsted report that criticised the school for its policy of [[Sex segregation|separating boys and girls]] at the school.<ref name="BBC27916">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/education-37485573|title=School seeks to block critical Ofsted report|date=27 September 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref> In July 2017, the High Court ruled that Ofsted could name the school, but that Ofsted had been "erroneous" to claim that such separation was illegal.<ref name="BBC11717">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40562226|title=Faith school in Ofsted 'sex discrimination' row can be named|date=11 July 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=11 July 2017}}</ref> In July 2017, the [[Department for Education|Department of Education]] ordered the leadership of the school to be taken over by an independent trust after books were found in the library which said that a man [[Domestic violence|can beat his wife]] lightly and that a wife must [[Marital rape|submit to her husband]] even if she doesn't want to have sex.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-order-takeover-of-muslim-school-after-it-is-branded-unsafe-kcd3ktqk9|title=Ministers order takeover of Muslim school after it is branded unsafe|last=Editor|first=Sian Griffiths, Education|access-date=2017-07-17|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-school-taken-over-government-ofsted-al-hijrah-mohammed-ismaeel-ashraf-birmingham-gender-a7843511.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716143056/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muslim-school-taken-over-government-ofsted-al-hijrah-mohammed-ismaeel-ashraf-birmingham-gender-a7843511.html |archive-date=2017-07-16 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Muslim school where library books said husbands could beat wives to be taken over by Government|last=Agerholm|first=Harriet|date=16 July 2017|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=4 October 2017}}</ref>
In 2019, Ofsted reported that gender segregation in the school was significant and ongoing, including requiring girls to wait to eat until "all the boys had finished."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-47090045|title='Boys eat lunch first' at faith school|date=2019-02-01|access-date=2019-10-20|language=en-GB}}</ref>
The school closed on 31 August 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/133306|title=Get information about schools|date=31 August 2019|website=gov.uk}}</ref> It has been succeeded by the Olive School, Small Heath, an Islamic school serving children ages 4 through 11 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/Establishments/Establishment/Details/147452#school-dashboard|title=The Olive School, Small Heath - GOV.UK|website=www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-10-20}}</ref>
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{{Schools in Birmingham|state=collapsed}}
{{Islamic schools in the UK}}
[[Category:Islam in Birmingham, West Midlands]]
[[Category:Defunct schools in Birmingham, West Midlands]]
[[Category:Defunct Islamic schools in England]]
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