Graded inspection · Feb 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in BirminghamSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry929 applications · 177 places offered · 193 named it first
- 2026 5.3; Birmingham median median 4.2
- 2025 5.8; Birmingham median median 4.3
- 2024 5.3; Birmingham median median 4.0
- 2023 4.6; Birmingham median median 4.1
- 2022 3.9; Birmingham median median 4.5
- This school
- Birmingham 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 | 177 | 929 | 5.3 | 193 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2025 | 174 | 1,006 | 5.8 | 205 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2024 | 179 | 955 | 5.3 | 179 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 180 | 820 | 4.6 | 173 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2022 | 180 | 699 | 3.9 | 131 | 0.73 |
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.) | 177 | 44.6 | 46% | 64% | – |
| 2024/25 | 0 | – | |||
| 2023/24 | 0 | – | |||
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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
- Prince Albert High SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20245.3applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 0.2 km · BirminghamStandards maintained20248.6applications per place 62.2Attainment 8
- 0.9 km · BirminghamGood20224.7applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Birmingham20262.4applications per place 44.2Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Birmingham20267.1applications per place 69.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 2.2 km · BirminghamRemains Good20234.0applications per place 47.8Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · BirminghamGood20234.2applications per place 42.1Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20242.9applications per place 42.7Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20253.3applications per place 46.4Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 148553 · 330/4041
- Trust
- Pa Community Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 930 pupils · 950 on roll
- Free school meals
- 43.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Address
- 115 Holford Drive, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 2TU
- Local authority
- Birmingham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources