Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–18 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.19 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–18 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 18 January 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East 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 | 0.19 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 0.19 miles away, the shortest of 40 Birmingham secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 last distance.
- That Year 7 distance has swung sharply, most of all between 2024 and 2025, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 6 years with a published distance.
- For Year 7 2026 there were 362 first-choice applications for 122 offers; 117 went to first-choice families, and 245 first-choice families (68%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 75% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 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
- 441 Alum Rock Road, Birmingham, B8 3DT
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Muslim
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 609 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 18 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils benefit from an exceptional education at Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy.”
- “Leaders and teachers share strong school values of service, teamwork, ambition and respect.”
- “Staff and pupils live out these values every day.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 March 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) | 75% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 60.8 | 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: 362 first-preference applications, 122 offers in total, 117 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.
- Rockwood Academy 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Saltley Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bordesley Green Girls' School & Sixth Form 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Waverley Studio College 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Small Heath Leadership Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Hodge Hill College 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- E-ACT Heartlands Academy 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published