Secondary
Lift Rawlett
Comberford Road, Tamworth, B79 9AA
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 926 of 1260 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.7
- Local authority
- Staffordshire
- Trust
- LIFT SCHOOLS
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 87.0
- Pupils per adult
- 11.9
- Pupils
- 1,038
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 June 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentRequires improvement
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
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.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
November 2022
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
GCSE results
44%
11 points above the Tamworth average (33% across 6 schools)
45.1
3.1 above the Tamworth average (42.0 across 6 schools)
6th of 6 by our score, among the secondary schools in Tamworth we can score - 8 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 | 45.1 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.11 |
| Entered the EBacc | 77% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 70% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 44% |
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 | 54% |
| 22/23 | 37% |
| 23/24 | 39% |
| 24/25 | 44% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.04 |
| 22/23 | -0.19 |
| 23/24 | -0.44 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 50.8 |
| 22/23 | 45.3 |
| 23/24 | 42.7 |
| 24/25 | 45.1 |
Comberford Road, Tamworth, B79 9AA
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.
Staffordshire 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
- Johanne Paddock
- Address
- Comberford Road, Tamworth, B79 9AA
- Telephone
- 0182757178