Holyhead School
Ofsted: Good
Score
C56
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Birmingham, B21 0HN
- Distance
- 1.3km away
St John Wall Catholic School
Oxhill Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, B21 8HH
Local ranking20th of 89 secondary schools in Birmingham
Ofsted: GoodUpdated— score data refreshed 15 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
600
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · Ofsted inspection 20 June 2023. Figures last updated .
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 50.2 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 51.3% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 63.9% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 119
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 89.0%
- Continued in education
- 88.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 0.0%
- Employment
- 1.0%
- Not sustained
- 5.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 620
- Boys
- 344 (58%)
- Girls
- 247 (42%)
- Capacity
- 600 (99% full)
- SEND
- 10.3%
- FSM Eligible
- 60.3%
- EAL
- 66.3%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.0%
- SEN Support
- 9.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 12.5:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.7
- Budget per Pupil
- £9,747/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 8.0% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 25.6% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- Black African: 22.2%
- Asian Indian: 15.7%
- White Other: 15.2%
- Black Caribbean: 10.9%
- Asian Pakistani: 10.6%
- Other: 6.9%
- Mixed Other: 3.9%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.6%
22.2%
Black African
15.7%
Asian Indian
15.2%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Oxhill Road
Birmingham, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 103534
- UKPRN
- 10017757
- Establishment No.
- 4625
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