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Rockwood Academy
Secondary · Mixed · Ages 11–16 · Academy
Naseby Road, Alum Rock, Birmingham B8 3HG · corerockwood.academy · 0121 566 6500
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Apr 2025
- GCSEs, 2024/25
- 39.1
- average Attainment 8 score. Birmingham 46.6, England 46
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Year 7, September 2026 entry · Birmingham Council
- Demand for places
- 0.6
- first choices for each place · Year 7, September 2026
- Pupils
- 1,073
- 23 over 1,050 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Sixth form
- No
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 63.9%
- First language not English
- 18%
- School census 2025/26
- Trust
- Core Education Trust
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Year 7 in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Birmingham Council’s document.
For Year 7 in September 2026, 122 families put the school first and 196 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Year 7 | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 196 | 122 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 205 | 159 | 0.8 | 92% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 209 | 155 | 0.7 | 95% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 240 | 170 | 0.7 | 99% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 209 | 144 | 0.7 | 92% |
Last distance offered
| Year 7 | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | All | |
| September 2025 | 0.51 mi0.82 km | |
| September 2024 | 0.54 mi0.87 km | |
| September 2023 | 4.34 mi6.98 km | |
| September 2022 | 0.59 mi0.94 km | |
Every applicant was offered a place.
Results
In 2024/25 the average Attainment 8 score at GCSE was 39.1, and 22.5% of pupils got grade 5 or above in English and maths. Across Birmingham it was 46.6, and across England 46.
GCSE results
Attainment 8
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| ▼39.1 | 46.0 | ||
| ▼22.5% | 45.4% | ||
| ▼46.1% | 64.8% | ||
| ▼10.8% | 40.5% | ||
| ▼3.28 | 4.09 |
Where Year 11 leavers went
| Left in 2023/24 | Since 2021/22 | |
|---|---|---|
| School sixth form | 15.6 | +3.8 |
| Sixth form college | 16.1 | −16.5 |
| Further education | 52.7 | +14.5 |
| Other education | 0.5 | — |
| Apprenticeship | 0.5 | −0.2 |
| Employment | 0.5 | −1.6 |
| Not in a lasting destination | 7.3 | −1.7 |
| Activity not captured | 6.8 | +1.2 |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 30 April 2025, Ofsted’s outcome for Rockwood Academy was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 29 Apr 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Nov 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2016Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Safeguarding Effective Mar 2014Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Inadequate
What parents said
23% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (13 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 23%
- Replies
- 13
- 1% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 100% who raised concerns
based on the 38% who had a child bullied