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Selly Oak Trust School

Special schoolAges 11–19FoundationSixth form

Birmingham, B29 6HZ · Birmingham local authority

Birmingham’s School Grade B better than 55% of towns in England

How full
400 pupils
January 2026 census
Free school meals
65%
65 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Selly Oak Trust School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 65% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2022 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B29 6) sold for a median £250,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 54 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Selly Oak Trust beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 0.8

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Birmingham avg 48.3

20304050607080England avg 47.3Selly Oak Trust 0.8

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Birmingham avg 50%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Selly Oak Trust 0%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 40 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
0.6England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
1.3England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths0%
England’s schools 66% · Birmingham 66% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

400 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
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
17.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
65.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 30%Boys 70%
Its letter

No letter for Selly Oak Trust School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to 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.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, November 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Selly Oak Trust School

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

Home prices in B29 6, the school’s postcode sector

Birmingham property prices →
£250,000
median sale, 286 sales in 36 months · Birmingham £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025B29 6Birmingham
B29 6Birmingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£415K
Semi-detached
£265K
Terraced
£245K
Flat
£194K
B29 6Birmingham

Homes in B29 6 sell for a little over Birmingham’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

28 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−DC+AA−C−BCA−A−A−A+A+ABBDB−A+A−B−B+C+C+A−C−B+Selly Oak Trust School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Birmingham, B29 6HZ

Selly Oak Trust School: common questions

What is Selly Oak Trust School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2022).

How much do houses cost near Selly Oak Trust School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B29 6, sold for a median £250,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (286 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; Birmingham’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.