E-ACT North Birmingham Academy

General Info

Education Phase: Secondary, 16 plus
Ofsted rating: Good Oct 4 2023 Ofsted report
Gender: Mixed
Age range: 11 - 19 y.o.
Type: Academies
Funding: State-funded secondary
Admissions policy: Non-selective
Religious Character: Does not apply
Sixth Form: Has a sixth form
Local authority: Birmingham
Unique reference: 136032
Address: 395 College Road, Erdington, B44 0HF
Website: https://northbirminghamacademy.e-act.org.uk/

Pupils

Number of Pupils: 1074 (89% of total capacity)
Boys: 53.3%
Girls: 46.7%
First language not English: 31.1%
Free school meals (FSM): 53.3%
Persistent absence: 13.6%
Special education needs (SEN): 14.0%

Pupil ethnicities

White British 31.1%

Mixed 14%

Pakistani 11.1%

Caribbean 9.8%

African 9.5%

Other 6.5%

Other White 5.2%

Bangladeshi 4%

Other Black 2.7%

Unclassified 2.2%

Indian 1.6%

Other Asian 1.6%

Chinese 0.6%

Irish Traveller 0.1%

Capacity %: Year 2022-2023 Persistent absence and other Pupils data: Year 2023-2024

Exam Results

GCSE Results

Progress 8 score

This school: -0.69
Local authority average, state-funded schools: 0.03
England average, state-funded schools: -0.03

Entering EBacc

School 18%

Local authority average 46%

England average 39%

Grade 5 or above in English & maths GCSEs

School 34%

Local authority average 45%

England average 45%

Attainment 8 score

School 38.1

Local authority average 46.1

England average 46.3

EBacc average point score

School 3.16

Local authority average 4.06

England average 4.05

Year 2022-2023

Subjects

GCSE Subjects

Subject	Qualification	Number of entries
Childcare Skills	Technical Award	20
Health Studies	Technical Award	14
Music performance: Group	Technical Award	30
Arabic	GCSE	5
Art & Design	GCSE	14
Biology	GCSE	30
Chemistry	GCSE	30
Computer Studies/Computing	GCSE	21
English Language	GCSE	162
English Literature	GCSE	162

Year 2022-2023

Admissions

North Birmingham Academy

Admission Policy: Non-selective
Total available places: 239
Status: Not oversubscribed

This school is Not Oversubscribed because there were fewer 1st preference applications than available places.

Applications

1st preference: 180
2nd preference: 133
3rd preference: 84
From another Local Authority: 3

Breakdown of applications made to this school within the deadline (in-year applications are excluded)

Offers

1st preference: 179
2nd preference: 31
3rd preference: 14
To another Local Authority: 0

Breakdown of offers made on National Offer Day (in-year applications are excluded)

Year 2024-2025

Class sizes

Class type	Class size
Average size of one-teacher classes	22.5

Year 2023-2024

Cohort sizes

Class type	Total Boys Girls
Year 7	239 134 105
Year 8	181 97 84
Year 9	174 98 76
Year 10	177 86 91
Year 11	181 101 80
Year 12	63 31 32
Year 13	59 25 34