Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
7.85 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 28 September 2022. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre 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 | 7.85 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 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 in 2026 lived 7.85 miles away, the longest of 40 Birmingham secondary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.14 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 5 of the 6 years with a published outcome.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026 there were 81 first-choice applications for 121 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 40 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Birmingham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Birmingham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Stonehouse Lane, Birmingham, B32 3AE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 627 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 53.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 28 September 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils at Hillcrest School and Sixth Form Centre are hard-working, polite and welcoming.”
- “They enjoy coming to school and achieve well.”
- “Students in the sixth form appreciate the individual academic guidance that their teachers provide.”
To improve
- “Currently however, there are some curriculum restrictions in religious education and design technology.”
- “Teachers sometimes do not meet the additional needs of pupils with SEND as well as they might do.”
- “Where this happens, pupils sometimes struggle to make sense of new learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 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) | 47% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 52.1 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
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: 81 first-preference applications, 121 offers in total, 81 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 Birmingham.
- Bartley Green School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Lift Four Dwellings Secondary 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- E-ACT Shenley Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- King Edward VI Five Ways School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The University of Birmingham School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King Edward VI Lordswood School for Girls 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lordswood Boys' School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published