Graded inspection · Mar 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
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 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.) | 63 | 32.8 | 18% | 38% | – |
| 2024/25 | 58 | 26.9 | 9% | 31% | – |
| 2023/24 | 45 | 28.2 | 4% | 29% | −1.09 |
| 2022/23 | 52 | 35.5 | 17% | 50% | −1.21 |
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
- Walsall Studio SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade202532.8Attainment 8
- 0.4 km · WalsallRemains Good20232.4applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · Walsall20265.7applications per place 74.1Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.2 km · WalsallOutstanding20234.5applications per place 72.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.9 km · WalsallRemains Good20231.6applications per place 37.9Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Walsall20261.4applications per place 42.9Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · SandwellStandards maintained20252.5applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · SandwellGood20242.6applications per place 41.5Attainment 8
- 3.5 km · WalsallGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 32.7Attainment 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
- Studio schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 139789 · 335/4005
- Trust
- The Mercian Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 300 pupils · 206 on roll
- Free school meals
- 48.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 2 September 2013
- Address
- 14a Lower Hall Lane, The Goldmine Centre, Walsall, WS1 1RL
- Local authority
- Walsall
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources