United Kingdom / Regions / Sandwell
Sandwell
West Midlands, England · population ~329k · 122 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 90 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Sandwell
122 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (90 of 122 here), 95.2% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 3 schools (2.5% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 122 schools.
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The Phoenix Collegiate | Secondary | 1,920 | Good | 14/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ormiston Forge Academy | Secondary | 1,686 | Not graded | 30/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Holly Lodge High School College of Science | Secondary | 1,643 | Good· | 03/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Q3 Academy Tipton | Secondary | 1,558 | Not graded | 29/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Wood Green Academy | Secondary | 1,522 | Good | 09/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Shireland Collegiate Academy | Secondary | 1,518 | Not graded | 15/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandwell Academy | Secondary | 1,461 | Good | 14/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Q3 Academy Langley | Secondary | 1,441 | Not graded | 11/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
George Salter Academy | Secondary | 1,438 | Good· | 24/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Oldbury Academy | Secondary | 1,341 | Good | 07/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Gospel Oak School | Secondary | 1,210 | Not graded | 30/09/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
St Michael's Church of England High School | Secondary | 1,178 | Good· | 18/01/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Q3 Academy Great Barr | Secondary | 1,163 | Good· | 22/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy | Secondary | 1,159 | Good· | 25/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Wodensborough Ormiston Academy | Secondary | 1,141 | Good | 25/11/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Bristnall Hall Academy | Secondary | 1,098 | Outstanding | 07/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School | Secondary | 836 | Good | 23/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Perryfields Academy | Secondary | 817 | Good· | 10/07/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery | Primary | 798 | Good | 16/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
West Bromwich Collegiate Academy | Secondary | 779 | Good | 20/02/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.