The Pedmore High School
Ofsted: Good
Score
D50
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Stourbridge, DY9 7HS
- Distance
- 2.1km away
Thorns Collegiate Academy
Stockwell Avenue, Brierley Hill, DY5 2NU
Local ranking18th of 18 secondary schools in Dudley
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Secondary
Phase
1000
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 38.7 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 33.5% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 51.4% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 65.4% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 3.4 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 179
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 86.0%
- Continued in education
- 80.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 4.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 6.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 895
- Boys
- 473 (53%)
- Girls
- 422 (47%)
- Capacity
- 1000 (90% full)
- SEND
- 16.6%
- FSM Eligible
- 35.0%
- EAL
- 7.7%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.6%
- SEN Support
- 15.1%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 17.4:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 51.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,112/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 9.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 28.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 81.7%
- Asian Pakistani: 4.5%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.8%
- White Other: 2.5%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.0%
- Black African: 2.0%
- Mixed Other: 1.2%
- Mixed White & Black African: 0.9%
81.7%
White British
4.5%
Asian Pakistani
2.8%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Stockwell Avenue
Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 143818
- UKPRN
- 10062000
- Establishment No.
- 4001
- Trust
- SHIRELAND COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST
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