Academy sponsor led · Secondary
Tipton · DY4 7NR · Sandwell
Ages 11–19
Status: Open
1.2 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 135599
Gospel Oak School
Academy sponsor led · Tipton · DY4 0BZ
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–18
Pupils
1,140
Local authority
Sandwell
Age range
Ages 11–18
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
2 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth formHas a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy sponsor led (secondary), Ages 11–18, in Tipton, Sandwell, 1,140 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: sixth form, academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 46.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 135599
Location
- Address
- Bilston Road, Gospel Oak
- Postcode
- DY4 0BZ
- Town
- Tipton
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- District
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,140
- Boys / girls
- 599 / 541
- School capacity
- 1,400
- Capacity fill
- 1,140 / 1,400 (81%)
- Free school meals
- 46.9%
- FSM pupils
- 492
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: CENTRAL REGION SCHOOLS TRUST
- Academy trust
- CENTRAL REGION SCHOOLS TRUST
- Sponsor
- Central Region Schools Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Stephen Brownlow
- Telephone
- 01215561351
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-09-30
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 35.9
- Progress 8
- -1.0
- English & maths grade 5+
- 26%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 41%
- EBacc entry
- 6%
- EBacc APS
- 2.8