BOA Digital Technologies Academy
Secondary · Free schools · 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
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
BOA Digital Technologies Academy is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–18 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 4 March 2025. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2023 to 2026 entry.
BOA Digital Technologies 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, Year 7 had 58 first-choice applications for 97 offers, which is 0.6 first choices per offer, the 8th lowest of 79 Birmingham secondary schools.
- In 2026, 57 Year 7 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place; 40 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Birmingham City Council published no last distance for Year 7 entry in 2026, noting that all applicants were offered a place.
- The school has 18.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 16.9 across 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
- 47 Barrack Street, Birmingham, B7 4EU
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 443 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 60% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 4 March 2025
Strengths
- “Many pupils enjoy attending BOA Digital Technologies Academy.”
- “They value their project work in digital technology lessons and the visits they receive from different businesses and employers.”
- “Staff are committed to ensuring that pupils see the connection between what they learn in the classroom and the potential jobs of the future.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils are not securing the necessary knowledge and skills they need.”
- “In addition, the work that some pupils produce in their exercise books is not of a good quality.”
- “However, in some subjects, the school has not identified the most important knowledge that pupils need to know and remember.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 April 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 58 first-preference applications, 97 offers in total, 57 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.
- E-ACT Heartlands Academy 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Birmingham Ormiston Academy 0.4 mi Good
- Aston University Engineering Academy 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Aston Manor Academy 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bordesley Green Girls' School & Sixth Form 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Small Heath Leadership Academy 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- King Edward VI Aston School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Catholic School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published