Alcester Academy, Alcester

Ofsted's report card from its 7 July 2026 inspection grades Alcester Academy on 6 areas: 1 exceptional and 5 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Personal development and wellbeing - Exceptional. "Leaders have created and sustained a rich, diverse and context-specific personal development programme."

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities and those who are disadvantaged, consistently produce high-quality work across a wide range of subjects."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders make attendance a priority."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have developed an ambitious, well-planned curriculum with clear end points."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Pupils benefit from a highly inclusive school."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders understand the school very well."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Senior leaders should strengthen the contribution of leaders at all levels to strategic improvement so the quality of the school's work continues to improve".

In its own words: "Alcester Academy provides an outstanding education through the delivery of a high quality, diverse and inclusive curriculum which allows all of our students to thrive and fulfil their own, personal potential. We aim that our students will become responsible members of the community with high moral values, self-discipline and resilience."

In 2026, pupils at Alcester Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48.9, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 50 in Warwickshire and 47 across England.

51% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 52% in Warwickshire and 47% in England.

That is down from 54 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.65: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 37.1, against 52.9 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 15.8 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 23 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were History, Religious Studies and Biology.

For September 2026 entry, 145 families put Alcester Academy as their first choice and 342 named it as one of their preferences, for 131 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 26 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Alcester Academy are St Benedict's Catholic High School (0.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.5); Alcester Grammar School (0.8 miles, Outstanding, selective, Attainment 8 75.5); Studley High School (3.9 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 51.7); and Ridgeway Secondary School (4.1 miles, Attainment 8 43.9).

Alcester Academy's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

Of the 125 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 88% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 43% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 5% into work.

1.4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Alcester Academy.

3 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Alcester Academy (opposite), 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Alcester Academy stands in is among the 20% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Alcester Academy issued 80 suspensions, 12.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 1 permanent exclusion.

The primary schools closest to Alcester Academy are Our Lady's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles); St Nicholas CofE Primary (0.5 miles); Tudor Grange Primary Academy, Haselor (1.3 miles); and Coughton CofE Primary School (1.8 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.