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OpenSecondaryURN 143818
Thorns Collegiate Academy
Academy sponsor led · Brierley Hill · DY5 2NU
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
861
Local authority
Dudley
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have 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 11–16, in Brierley Hill, Dudley, 861 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 37%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 143818
Location
- Address
- Stockwell Avenue, Quarry Bank
- Postcode
- DY5 2NU
- Town
- Brierley Hill
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Dudley
- District
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Stourbridge
- 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
- 861
- Boys / girls
- 447 / 414
- School capacity
- 1,000
- Capacity fill
- 861 / 1,000 (86%)
- Free school meals
- 37%
- FSM pupils
- 319
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Governance
- Academy trust: SHIRELAND COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- SHIRELAND COLLEGIATE ACADEMY TRUST
- Sponsor
- Shireland Collegiate Academy Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Ms Nicola Jones
- Telephone
- 01384987973
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
Requires improvement
Inspection date
2024-03-12
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- 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
- 36.5
- Progress 8
- -0.5
- English & maths grade 5+
- 21%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 43%
- EBacc entry
- 41%
- EBacc APS
- 3.0