Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Staffordshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
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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 entry257 applications · 151 places offered · 90 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2025 1.9; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2024 1.5; Staffordshire median median 1.7
- 2023 1.8; Staffordshire median median 1.7
- 2022 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2021 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.7
- 2020 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2019 1.9; Staffordshire median median 1.7
- 2018 1.8; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2017 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.7
- 2016 1.9; Staffordshire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.7; Staffordshire median median 1.6
- 2014 1.6; Staffordshire median median 1.7
- This school
- Staffordshire 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 | 151 | 257 | 1.7 | 90 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2025 | 135 | 262 | 1.9 | 97 | 0.72 |
| Sep 2024 | 212 | 327 | 1.5 | 197 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2023 | 185 | 323 | 1.8 | 164 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2022 | 235 | 391 | 1.7 | 214 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2021 | 234 | 402 | 1.7 | 220 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2020 | 248 | 386 | 1.6 | 234 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2019 | 191 | 361 | 1.9 | 203 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2018 | 191 | 349 | 1.8 | 231 | 1.21 |
| Sep 2017 | 191 | 322 | 1.7 | 212 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2016 | 191 | 353 | 1.9 | 222 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 | 190 | 322 | 1.7 | 197 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2014 | 187 | 300 | 1.6 | 202 | 1.08 |
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.) | 209 | 45.7 | 53% | 73% | – |
| 2024/25 | 219 | 45.1 | 44% | 70% | – |
| 2023/24 | 194 | 42.7 | 39% | 63% | −0.44 |
| 2022/23 | 176 | 45.3 | 37% | 71% | −0.19 |
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
- Lift RawlettThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 45.7Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · StaffordshireGood20222.2applications per place 46.3Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · Staffordshire20261.5applications per place 39.9Attainment 8
- 4.6 km · StaffordshireGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 35.3Attainment 8
- 5.8 km · StaffordshireGood20221.7applications per place 42.3Attainment 8
- 7.3 km · WarwickshireGood20231.6applications per place 42.0Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · StaffordshireRemains Good20222.5applications per place 53.9Attainment 8
- 9.2 km · Staffordshire20261.7applications per place 39.6Attainment 8
- 9.6 km · WarwickshireGood20231.9applications per place 43.3Attainment 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 converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 138728 · 860/4158
- Trust
- Lift Schools
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,260 pupils · 926 on roll
- Free school meals
- 24.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2012
- Replaced
- Rawlett Community Sports College (URN 124435)
- Address
- Comberford Road, Tamworth, B79 9AA
- Local authority
- Staffordshire · Lichfield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources