St Bede's Catholic Middle School
Middle deemed secondary · Redditch · B98 7HA
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 18 January 2023
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646 pupils · 100% of 640 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 17.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 34.9% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.9% of pupils
- URN
- 141064
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2021
0.33 first-choice applications per place9 places offered · 3 first-choice applications · usually has places
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
157 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
97% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 17 January 2023: School remains Good
- 14 June 2017: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.