Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Oldbury, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sandwell Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy is a secondary school in Oldbury, Sandwell for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 October 2023. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, as at 14 of the 21 other Sandwell secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- For Year 7 entry places ran out, with a last distance published, in both 2024 and 2025, and that distance swung sharply between years.
- There were 191 first-choice applications for 227 offers at Year 7 in 2026, and 36 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 34.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 44.4% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Sandwell.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sandwell schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Lower City Road, Oldbury, B69 2HE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 1,139 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 October 2023
Strengths
- “Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy (OSCA) staff and pupils share the same high ambitions.”
- “Pupils understand and follow the ‘Team OSCA’ values of ‘opportunity, scholarship, compassion, aspiration’.”
- “Pupils speak positively about the support they receive.”
To improve
- “However, pupils who spoke to inspectors said that poor behaviour still affects some lessons.”
- “However, some teachers do not always check what pupils understand in lessons.”
- “They do not know if pupils have remembered what they have learned before.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 37% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.3 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 191 first-preference applications, 227 offers in total, 191 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Sandwell.
- West Bromwich Collegiate Academy 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- George Salter Academy 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Q3 Academy Tipton 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Michael's Church of England High School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shireland Biomedical Utc 1.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Shireland CBSO Academy 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Holly Lodge High School College of Science 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Q3 Academy Langley 2.4 mi Improved significantly Last distance published