Small Heath Leadership Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Birmingham City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Small Heath Leadership Academy is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 May 2022. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Small Heath Leadership 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 |
| 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
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, as at 29 of the 78 other Birmingham secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- In 1 of the 5 earlier Year 7 years places ran out, with a last distance published, though not in 2026.
- Year 7 2026 drew 137 first-choice applications for 220 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 83 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 48% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), with an Attainment 8 score of 45.7 (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
- Muntz Street, Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 9RX
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 1,131 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 May 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils value the education that they receive at Small Heath Leadership Academy.”
- “They say that staff go out of their way to help them when they need it.”
- “Pupils say that the ‘STAR’ values of service, teamwork, ambition and respect create a community in which diversity is celebrated.”
To improve
- “However, teachers do not consistently use this to good effect.”
- “Teachers do not act on what pupils do not know consistently enough and this means that gaps build in some pupils’ knowledge.”
- “However, pupils are not routinely given the opportunity to extend and apply their knowledge in lessons.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 July 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) | 48% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 45.7 | 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: 137 first-preference applications, 220 offers in total, 137 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.
- Holy Trinity Catholic School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Bordesley Green Girls' School & Sixth Form 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Ark Boulton Academy 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Waverley Studio College 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- BOA Digital Technologies Academy 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Saltley Academy 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published