Landau Forte Academy, QEMS

Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Tamworth, Staffordshire

Last distance offered · Year 7 2026

0.639 miles

Published by Staffordshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026

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Landau Forte Academy, QEMS is a secondary school in Tamworth, Staffordshire for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 13 September 2022. Staffordshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2024 to 2026 entry.

Landau Forte Academy, QEMS 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	0.639 mi
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

The last child offered a Year 7 place for 2026 lived 0.639 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 18 Staffordshire secondary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 3.52 miles).
The Year 7 last distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 or 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
Year 7 2026 had 281 first-choice applications for 211 offers; 205 offers went to first-choice families, and 76 first-choice families (27%) were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 39% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 49.6 (England 46).

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Staffordshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Ashby Road, Tamworth, B79 8AH
Type: Academy sponsor led
Phase: Secondary
Ages: 11–16
Admissions policy: Non-selective
Council: Staffordshire
Pupils on roll: 1,029 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 26.5% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 19.9

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 13 September 2022

Strengths

“Leaders at Landau Forte Academy, QEMS have high aspirations for all pupils and set high academic standards for them.”
“Pupils say that they welcome these high standards and understand what leaders expect from them.”
“This helps pupils to achieve well.”

To improve

“However, where curriculum leaders have not identified key knowledge as precisely, pupils have gaps in their learning.”
“They therefore struggle to complete more complex tasks later in their education.”
“However, on occasions, teachers do not check pupils’ prior learning well enough and therefore any gaps in their knowledge persist and their progress is limited.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 November 2022 (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)	39%	45%
Attainment 8 score (2024/25)	49.6	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: 281 first-preference applications, 211 offers in total, 205 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 Staffordshire.

Lift Rawlett 0.9 mi Not judged
Landau Forte Academy, Amington 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
Lift Tamworth 2.0 mi Not judged
The Wilnecote School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
King Edward VI School 5.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Nether Stowe School 6.4 mi No Ofsted grade
The Friary School 7.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
John Taylor High School 8.6 mi Not judged Last distance published