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Kickstart Academy

Alternative provisionAges 14–16Academy

Telford, TF2 9PQ · Telford and Wrekin local authority

Telford’s School Grade C better than 33% of towns in England

How full
49 pupils
82% of its 60 places
Free school meals
71%
71 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Kickstart Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 71% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Requires improvement, March 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TF2 9) sold for a median £286,000; Telford’s is £218,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

56 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
89.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
5.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
10.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
71.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 32%Boys 68%
Its letter

No letter for Kickstart Academy

Alternative provision isn’t given a letter: pupils come for part of their schooling, so results don’t compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Requires improvement, March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Kickstart Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in TF2 9, the school’s postcode sector

Telford property prices →
£286,000
median sale, 627 sales in 36 months · Telford £218,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025TF2 9Telford
TF2 9Telford

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£374K
Semi-detached
£215K
Terraced
£179K
Flat
£119K
TF2 9Telford

Homes in TF2 9 sell for well over Telford’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

10 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBA−B−AA−BBAD−Kickstart Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Telford, TF2 9PQ

Kickstart Academy: common questions

What is Kickstart Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Requires improvement (March 2022).

How much do houses cost near Kickstart Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, TF2 9, sold for a median £286,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (627 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Telford’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.