Secondary
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
Lower City Road, Oldbury, B69 2HE
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1139 of 1100 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Trust
- ORMISTON ACADEMIES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 61.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 89.0
- Pupils per adult
- 13.0
- Pupils
- 1,157
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2023
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
37%
2 points below the Oldbury average (39% across 5 schools)
42.3
2.4 below the Oldbury average (44.7 across 5 schools)
3rd of 5 by our score, among the secondary schools in Oldbury we can score - 6 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 42.3 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.43 |
| Entered the EBacc | 3% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 59% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 37% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 40% |
| 22/23 | 39% |
| 23/24 | 33% |
| 24/25 | 37% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.12 |
| 22/23 | -0.18 |
| 23/24 | -0.38 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 50.4 |
| 22/23 | 43.2 |
| 23/24 | 39.9 |
| 24/25 | 42.3 |
Lower City Road, Oldbury, B69 2HE
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Sandwell admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Principal
- Pete McKinniss
- Address
- Lower City Road, Oldbury, B69 2HE
- Telephone
- 01215525501