Graded inspection · May 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| 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 entry290 applications · 117 places offered · 83 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.5; Birmingham median median 4.2
- 2025 3.0; Birmingham median median 4.3
- 2024 2.4; Birmingham median median 4.0
- 2023 2.1; Birmingham median median 4.1
- 2022 2.6; 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 | 117 | 290 | 2.5 | 83 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2025 | 117 | 351 | 3.0 | 81 | 0.69 |
| Sep 2024 | 209 | 498 | 2.4 | 149 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2023 | 223 | 466 | 2.1 | 131 | 0.59 |
| Sep 2022 | 180 | 474 | 2.6 | 183 | 1.02 |
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.) | 168 | 34.1 | 28% | 43% | – |
| 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
- Christ Church, Church of England Secondary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20242.5applications per place 34.1Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · BirminghamGood20236.2applications per place 46.0Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · BirminghamRemains Outstanding20243.1applications per place 53.3Attainment 8
- 2.3 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20254.6applications per place 48.2Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20256.6applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · SolihullGood20213.5applications per place 52.0Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · Birmingham20265.2applications per place 51.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · WorcestershireRemains Good20241.9applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · BirminghamSpecial measures 20255.8applications per place 41.0Attainment 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
- 148589 · 330/4042
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 1,150 pupils · 829 on roll
- Free school meals
- 44.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2021
- Address
- 6 Dale View Road, Birmingham, B14 4HN
- Local authority
- Birmingham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources