The Excel Academy
Ofsted: Good
Score
D49
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 6LG
- Distance
- 0.8km away
Birches Head Academy
Birches Head Road, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST2 8DD
Local ranking14th of 14 secondary schools in Stoke-on-Trent
Ofsted: Needs attention
Secondary
Phase
1040
Capacity
11-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum & teaching
- Needs attention
- Attendance & behaviour
- Needs attention
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership & governance
- Needs attention
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 31.3 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 17.1% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 39.2% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 25.6% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 2.6 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 199
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 79.0%
- Continued in education
- 69.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 6.0%
- Employment
- 4.0%
- Not sustained
- 16.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 953
- Boys
- 502 (53%)
- Girls
- 451 (47%)
- Capacity
- 1040 (92% full)
- SEND
- 15.3%
- FSM Eligible
- 47.2%
- EAL
- 26.7%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 1.6%
- SEN Support
- 13.8%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.9:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 56.3
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,846/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 11.9% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 36.2% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- 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: 57.1%
- Other: 9.8%
- White Other: 8.3%
- Black African: 8.3%
- Asian Pakistani: 7.5%
- Asian Other: 2.0%
- Mixed Other: 1.5%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.2%
57.1%
White British
9.8%
Other
8.3%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Birches Head Road
Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands
Administrative
- URN
- 148220
- UKPRN
- 10087075
- Establishment No.
- 4046
- Trust
- FRANK FIELD EDUCATION TRUST
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