Moseley School and Sixth Form

About Moseley School and Sixth Form

Moseley School and Sixth Form is a heavily oversubscribed state secondary in Birmingham, with 1,127 applications for 249 places in the 2025/26 admissions round — an oversubscription ratio of 4.53. That means more than four families applied for every available spot, and only 171 first-preference offers were made out of 180 first-preference applications, so being put at the top of your list is no guarantee of a place. The school does not have a parent-view recommendation percentage in the data, but the sheer volume of applications suggests strong local demand. With 62.1 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a significantly disadvantaged community, and its size is large at 1,428 pupils against a capacity of 1,475. Headteacher Andrew Bate leads a mixed, non-religious secondary with a sixth form, and the school’s most recent Ofsted inspection in 2021 judged it Good overall, with Good for leadership and management and Good for sixth-form provision.

Academically, the school’s Progress 8 score for 2023/24 was -0.33, which is below the Birmingham local authority average of 0.09 and places it 69th out of 83 secondaries in the LA — in the bottom 50 nationally. The Attainment 8 score was 39.1, and the basics measure (grade 5 or above in English and maths) was 30.6 per cent, compared with 50.2 per cent at grade 4 or above. The EBacc average point score was 3.36, with 31.8 per cent of pupils entering the EBacc and 11 per cent achieving grade 5 or above in it. At A-level, the school’s value-added score was -0.11, which is classed as Average, with a points per entry of 30.36 (grade C) and 13.6 per cent of entries achieving AAB or higher. The best three A-levels averaged a C+ grade. Compared with its previous Ofsted inspection in 2014, which rated the school Requires Improvement, the current Good rating represents a clear step up in quality.

The school offers a broad range of facilities including a swimming pool, astro turf, sports hall, tennis courts, music rooms, art studios, science labs, and a sixth form centre. Sports on offer include football, netball, hockey, gymnastics, martial arts, cross country, swimming, and badminton, while clubs range from choir and debate to coding, Young Enterprise, gardening, DofE, and Model UN. The school has a dedicated sixth form centre and a chapel on site. SEND provisions cover a wide spectrum, including specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. For families weighing up options, this is a large, popular school that has improved its Ofsted rating and serves a high-needs community, but its Progress 8 outcomes are below the local average, so it may suit families who value the breadth of extracurricular provision and inclusive SEND support over headline academic scores.

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