Hamstead Hall Academy

Hamstead Hall Academy is performing well overall, achieving a 'Good' rating with notable strengths in leadership and management, which have been rated as 'Outstanding'. The school demonstrates a strong commitment to inclusivity and personal development, ensuring that all students, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), are supported effectively. With a solid curriculum and a focus on high academic standards, most pupils leave the school well-prepared for their future endeavors. The leadership team, which is relatively new, has rapidly implemented improvements that have positively impacted student outcomes and school culture.

Strengths

• Strong leadership and management with outstanding practices.
• Inclusive environment supporting all students effectively.
• High ambitions for every pupil, including disadvantaged and SEND students.
• Positive relationships between staff and pupils enhance learning.
• Broad and ambitious curriculum encouraging personal and academic growth.
• Effective support for pupils at early stages of learning to read.
• Tailored interventions for improving literacy and overall student performance.
• Good quality education for sixth-form students with valuable career advice.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent adaptation of teaching to challenge more able pupils.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Hamstead Hall Academy attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 16.1% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 3.4% of pupils at Hamstead Hall Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Hamstead Hall Academy had 15.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 16.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 14.2% of pupils at Hamstead Hall Academy were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 4.2% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

The school has resourced provision with 35 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Hamstead Hall Academy received £8,862 and spent £8,468 for each of its 1,190 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £713,000 (£599 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of Hamstead Hall Academy Trust, income was £8,519 and spending £8,282 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Hamstead Hall Academy is part of Hamstead Hall Academy Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Grestone Academy Birmingham

What is Hamstead Hall Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hamstead Hall Academy is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Hamstead Hall Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Hamstead Hall Academy was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Hamstead Hall Academy have?

Hamstead Hall Academy has 1,173 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hamstead Hall Academy cover?

Hamstead Hall Academy for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Hamstead Hall Academy's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 40.6, and 34% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Hamstead Hall Academy?

Hamstead Hall Academy is at Craythorne Avenue, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, West Midlands, B20 1HL.