West Midlands
Secondary schools in Sandwell
128 schools, 62,207 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 38.9.
Ofsted across Sandwell
Good56
Outstanding7
Requires improvement2
No overall grade63
65 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 63 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Sandwell
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 Academy LangleyAcademy sponsor led | Oldbury | No grade | 51.8 |
| Sandwell AcademyAcademy sponsor led | West Bromwich | Good 2024 | 49.1 |
| St Michael's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school | Rowley Regis | Good 2023 | 48.9 |
| Bristnall Hall AcademyAcademy converter | Oldbury | Outstanding 2023 | 48.1 |
| West Bromwich Collegiate AcademyFree schools | West Bromwich | Good 2024 | 45.3 |
| Wood Green AcademyAcademy converter | Wednesbury | No grade | 44.7 |
| Shireland Collegiate AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Smethwick | No grade | 44.5 |
| Q3 Academy Great BarrAcademy sponsor led | Birmingham | Good 2022 | 44.2 |
| Perryfields AcademyAcademy converter | Oldbury | Good 2024 | 43.8 |
| Ormiston Sandwell Community AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Oldbury | Good 2023 | 42.3 |
| Holly Lodge High School College of ScienceFoundation school | Smethwick | Good 2022 | 42.1 |
| Stuart Bathurst Catholic High SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Wednesbury | Good 2024 | 41.4 |
| The Phoenix CollegiateFoundation school | West Bromwich | Good 2023 | 39.8 |
| Ormiston Forge AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Cradley Heath | No grade | 39.7 |
| George Salter AcademyAcademy sponsor led | West Bromwich | Good 2023 | 39.6 |
| Wodensborough Ormiston AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Wednesbury | No grade | 38.6 |
| Oldbury AcademyAcademy converter | Oldbury | Good 2021 | 37.4 |
| Q3 Academy TiptonAcademy sponsor led | Tipton | No grade | 36.4 |
| Gospel Oak SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Tipton | No grade | 32.8 |
| Shireland Biomedical UtcUniversity technical college | West Bromwich | Requires improvement 2023 | — |
| Windsor Olympus AcademyFree schools | Birmingham | No grade | — |
| Shireland CBSO AcademyFree schools | West Bromwich | No grade | — |