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Secondary school in Birmingham

Holte School

Wheeler Street, Lozells, Birmingham, West Midlands, B19 2EP

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01215664370

Ofsted

Goodas at 10 October 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 10 October 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

39.4 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

24% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

45% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

79% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom quarter of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.01confidence interval -0.19 to 0.18

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C-
Average points per entry
25.3

England average 32.3

A level students
43

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1127
Places
1160
How full
Nearly full — 1127 of 1160 places taken
Girls / boys
545 / 582
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
29%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
64%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
74%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
17%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
43%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
191

After sixth form

Went to university
67%

England 50%

In education, work or training
81%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
75

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

11% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
75%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
79

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Birmingham 041D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
22%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
31%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
34%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
50%

England 17%

Households with no car
35%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
50%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Simon Adams
Local authority
Birmingham
Ward
Lozells
Constituency
Birmingham Perry Barr
URN
103509

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Birmingham Independent CollegeOther independent school No grade 0.2 mi
Newbury Independent SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.3 mi
Nishkam High SchoolFree schools No grade 51.3 0.4 mi
Aston Manor AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.6 0.6 mi
Birchfield Independent Girls' SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
King Edward VI Aston SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 71.2 0.7 mi
Star King Solomon AcademyFree schools No grade 34.1 0.9 mi
Broadway AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 42.7 0.9 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Maria Fidelis Catholic School FCJVoluntary aided school No grade 41.9
North Liverpool AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 45.6
Holy Trinity Catholic SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 44
Oasis Academy HadleyAcademy sponsor led No grade 42
Chaucer SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 29.3
Blackpool Aspire AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 36.7
St Paul's Way Trust SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 51.8
Ormiston NEW AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 35.7

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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