Secondary
Plantsbrook School
Upper Holland Road, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1RB
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1574 of 1498 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- VI - Visual Impairment
- Trust
- BROADLEAF PARTNERSHIP TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 86.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 124.9
- Pupils per adult
- 12.4
- Pupils
- 1,553
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 February 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
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
60%
3 points below the Sutton Coldfield average (63% across 8 schools)
51.8
4.5 below the Sutton Coldfield average (56.3 across 8 schools)
5th of 8 by our score, among the secondary schools in Sutton Coldfield we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 51.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.92 |
| Entered the EBacc | 72% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 78% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 60% |
| A level average points per entry | 30.07 |
| A level students | 149 |
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 | 57% |
| 22/23 | 61% |
| 23/24 | 61% |
| 24/25 | 60% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 34.5 |
| 22/23 | 32.2 |
| 23/24 | 33.7 |
| 24/25 | 30.1 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.13 |
| 22/23 | +0.06 |
| 23/24 | -0.01 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 52.2 |
| 22/23 | 50.9 |
| 23/24 | 50.8 |
| 24/25 | 51.8 |
Upper Holland Road, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1RB
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.
Birmingham 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
- Headteacher
- Kerensa Neal
- Address
- Upper Holland Road, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1RB
- Telephone
- 01213627310