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Secondary school in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

The Arthur Terry School

Kittoe Road, Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B74 4RZ

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Full
School website 01213232221

Ofsted

Goodas at 15 November 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 15 November 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 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

55.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

61% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

84% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

89% England 40.8%

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

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

Progress 8 2023/24

0.11confidence interval -0.06 to 0.28

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
33.6

England average 32.3

A level students
174

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1758
Places
1480
How full
Full — 1758 pupils against 1480 places
Girls / boys
851 / 907
Overall absence
6%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
13%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
12%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
90%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
52%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
274

After sixth form

Went to university
61%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
11%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
173

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

30% 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
73%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
172

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 002B, 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
44%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
13%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
80%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
12%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE ARTHUR TERRY LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
Headteacher
Headteacher: Joanne Fairclough
Local authority
Birmingham
Ward
Sutton Four Oaks
Constituency
Sutton Coldfield
URN
138136

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Bishop Vesey's Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 77.1 1.5 mi
Plantsbrook SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.8 2.2 mi
The Streetly AcademyAcademy converter Good 2022 42.1 2.3 mi
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for GirlsAcademy converter Good 2022 79.4 2.4 mi
FairfaxAcademy converter Good 2024 49.1 2.5 mi
The Royal Sutton SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 39.7 2.6 mi
Bishop Walsh Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56 3.1 mi
St Francis of Assisi Catholic CollegeVoluntary aided school No grade 53.2 3.2 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
Upton-by-Chester High SchoolFoundation school No grade 48.8
King James's SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 46.1
Uffculme SchoolAcademy converter No grade 52.8
Lavington SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 50.3
Oakgrove SchoolAcademy converter No grade 54.7
Chelmer Valley High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 45.3
The South Wolds Academy & Sixth FormAcademy converter No grade 53.5
Teddington SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56.5

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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