Graded inspection · Mar 2025 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 | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| 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 entry316 applications · 97 places offered · 58 named it first
- 2026 3.3; Birmingham median median 4.2
- 2025 2.3; Birmingham median median 4.3
- 2024 2.7; Birmingham median median 4.0
- 2023 1.7; Birmingham median median 4.1
- 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 | 97 | 316 | 3.3 | 58 | 0.60 |
| Sep 2025 | 126 | 287 | 2.3 | 51 | 0.40 |
| Sep 2024 | 126 | 337 | 2.7 | 69 | 0.55 |
| Sep 2023 | 137 | 236 | 1.7 | 64 | 0.47 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- BOA Digital Technologies AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.3applications per place
- 0.5 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20254.3applications per place 48.7Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · BirminghamGood202353.0Attainment 8
- 0.7 km · Birmingham202643.5Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · BirminghamSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade20243.0applications per place 32.4Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · BirminghamStandards maintained20258.5applications per place 45.0Attainment 8
- 1.7 km · BirminghamGood20226.9applications per place 51.3Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · BirminghamGood20223.5applications per place 46.6Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · Birmingham20267.1applications per place 69.9Attainment 8 Selective
- 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
- 149042 · 330/4044
- Trust
- Boa Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 900 pupils · 443 on roll
- Free school meals
- 60.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Address
- 47 Barrack Street, Birmingham, B7 4EU
- Local authority
- Birmingham
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources