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Boys selective secondary school in Birmingham

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 7QJ

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Selective Sixth form Boys Full
School website 01214443188

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 22 November 2023

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 22 November 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

75.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

97% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

99% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

7.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

82% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

1.09confidence interval 0.81 to 1.36

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above 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
A-
Average points per entry
47

England average 32.3

A level students
167

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1059
Places
950
How full
Full — 1059 pupils against 950 places
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
18%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
31%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
19%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
1%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
4%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
100%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
100%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
99%
No sustained destination
0%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
120

After sixth form

Went to university
75%

England 50%

In education, work or training
89%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
158

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

73% 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
89%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
156

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 107B, 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
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
63%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
15%

England 17%

Households with no car
28%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
36%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Boys
Admissions
Selective (entrance test)
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
KING EDWARD VI ACADEMY TRUST BIRMINGHAM
Headteacher
Headmaster: Russell Bowen
Local authority
Birmingham
Ward
Brandwood & King's Heath
Constituency
Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley
URN
137045

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for GirlsAcademy converter Outstanding 2021 80.4 0 mi
Bishop Challoner Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 48.4 0.5 mi
Wheelers Lane Technology CollegeCommunity school No grade 48.4 0.6 mi
Queensbridge SchoolFoundation school Good 2023 48.5 0.8 mi
Selly Park Girls' SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 52.4 0.8 mi
Kings Heath Secondary SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 40 1.1 mi
Swanshurst SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 1.1 mi
Kings Norton Girls' SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.6 1.5 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
The Marsh AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 37.7
Thistley Hough AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.9
The Barnes Wallis AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 39.1
Park Vale AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 42.8
Lord Grey AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 40.4
Thomas Hall SchoolFree schools Requires improvement 2024 34.6
Mayfield SchoolFoundation school Good 2024 45
Coleridge Community CollegeAcademy converter No grade 55.1

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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