Yardleys School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.89 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Yardleys School is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 March 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Yardleys School 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 | 0.89 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
- Year 7 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.89 miles away, the 11th shortest of 40 Birmingham secondary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- Year 7 2026: the last distance was further than in 2025 and 2021, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 6 years with a published distance.
- Year 7 entry in 2026 had 203 first-choice applications for 189 offers: 169 offers went to first-choice families and 34 first-choice families (17%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 46% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 46.7 (England 46).
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
- Reddings Lane, Tyseley, Birmingham, B11 3EY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 930 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 63% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 March 2023
Strengths
- “Yardleys School is a unique and special place.”
- “Staff have built an inclusive and cohesive community.”
- “They put pupils’ best interests at the heart of all they do.”
To improve
- “However, there are some instances where pupils do not fully grasp the concepts taught.”
- “This means that new, important knowledge is not learned and understood in sufficient detail.”
- “Subsequently, when teachers ask pupils to complete recall activities, pupils struggle to remember such knowledge, as they did not securely understand it when it was first taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 April 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) | 46% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46.7 | 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: 203 first-preference applications, 189 offers in total, 169 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.
- Ark Boulton Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ninestiles, an Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moseley School and Sixth Form 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hall Green School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Catholic School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Small Heath Leadership Academy 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published