Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Worcestershire
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 | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
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 hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry192 applications · 112 places offered · 111 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2025 1.4; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2024 2.0; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2023 1.2; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2022 0.7; Worcestershire median median 1.5; as the previous school
- 2021 2.2; Worcestershire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2020 1.0; Worcestershire median median 1.6; as the previous school
- 2019 1.0; Worcestershire median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2018 2.5; Worcestershire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.0; Worcestershire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- This school
- Worcestershire median
Dashed bars: as Ridgeway Secondary School (URN 139029), Ridgeway Middle School (URN 116971), the previous school.
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 | 112 | 192 | 1.7 | 111 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2025 | 104 | 146 | 1.4 | 88 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2024 | 56 | 112 | 2.0 | 49 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2023 | 92 | 113 | 1.2 | 36 | 0.39 |
| Sep 2022 * | 77 | 50 | 0.7 | 15 | 0.19 |
| Sep 2021 * | 23 | 50 | 2.2 | 14 | 0.61 |
| Sep 2020 * | 29 | 30 | 1.0 | 8 | 0.28 |
| Sep 2019 * | 29 | 29 | 1.0 | 10 | 0.34 |
| Sep 2018 * | 4 | 10 | 2.5 | 1 | 0.25 |
| Sep 2017 * | 4 | 8 | 2.0 | 4 | 1.00 |
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.) | 59 | 43.9 | 51% | 73% | – |
| 2024/25 | 31 | 47.0 | 55% | 81% | – |
| 2023/24 | 53 | 44.4 | 45% | 66% | +0.43 |
| 2022/23 | 66 | 35.6 | 27% | 46% | −0.62 |
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
- Ridgeway Secondary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 43.9Attainment 8
- 2.5 km · WorcestershireOutstanding202446.4Attainment 8
- 3.3 km · WarwickshireOutstanding20242.0applications per place 51.7Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Worcestershire202633.1Attainment 8
- 4.1 km · WorcestershireRemains Good2023
- 5.0 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade2024
- 5.5 km · WorcestershireRemains Good2023
- 5.7 km · WorcestershireStandards maintained202441.9Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · WarwickshireOutstanding20225.5applications per place 75.5Attainment 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
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 149437 · 885/4020
- Capacity
- 600 pupils · 432 on roll
- Free school meals
- 15.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2022
- Replaced
- Ridgeway Secondary School (URN 139029); Ridgeway Middle School (URN 116971)
- Address
- Evesham Road, Redditch, B96 6BD
- Local authority
- Worcestershire · Redditch
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources