Graded inspection · Sep 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Sandwell
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry281 applications · 160 places offered · 143 named it first
- 2026 1.8; Sandwell median median 2.4
- 2025 1.5; Sandwell median median 2.0
- 2024 1.2; Sandwell median median 2.0
- 2023 1.5; Sandwell median median 1.8
- 2022 1.6; Sandwell median median 1.9
- 2021 1.3; Sandwell median median 2.1
- 2020 1.6; Sandwell median median 2.1
- 2019 1.8; Sandwell median median 1.9
- 2018 1.8; Sandwell median median 2.0
- 2017 1.5; Sandwell median median 2.2
- 2016 2.0; Sandwell median median 2.0
- 2015 1.9; Sandwell median median 1.9
- 2014 1.9; Sandwell median median 1.8
- This school
- Sandwell median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 160 | 281 | 1.8 | 143 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2025 | 150 | 220 | 1.5 | 115 | 0.77 |
| Sep 2024 | 226 | 266 | 1.2 | 166 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2023 | 237 | 361 | 1.5 | 211 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 | 223 | 353 | 1.6 | 197 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2021 | 226 | 303 | 1.3 | 187 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2020 | 232 | 366 | 1.6 | 195 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2019 | 239 | 429 | 1.8 | 237 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2018 | 241 | 423 | 1.8 | 217 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2017 | 233 | 359 | 1.5 | 193 | 0.83 |
| Sep 2016 | 185 | 367 | 2.0 | 208 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2015 | 176 | 342 | 1.9 | 202 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2014 | 179 | 344 | 1.9 | 179 | 1.00 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 217 | 39.2 | 30% | 47% | – |
| 2024/25 | 216 | 32.8 | 18% | 36% | – |
| 2023/24 | 220 | 35.9 | 26% | 41% | −0.97 |
| 2022/23 | 213 | 35.6 | 24% | 39% | −0.86 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Gospel Oak SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 39.2Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · SandwellGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 34.1Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · Walsall20261.7applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · Wolverhampton20262.0applications per place 40.3Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · WalsallGood20222.3applications per place 40.7Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Wolverhampton20262.5applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · Sandwell20251.9applications per place 41.0Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · WolverhamptonRemains Good20232.0applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 3.4 km · SandwellGood20242.6applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 135599 · 333/6909
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,400 pupils · 1,140 on roll
- Free school meals
- 46.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2008
- Replaced
- Willingsworth High School (URN 104010)
- Address
- Bilston Road, Gospel Oak, Tipton, DY4 0BZ
- Local authority
- Sandwell
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources