Beacon Hill Academy
Academy converter · 1,117 pupils
78% stayed in education · Attainment 8 41.0
Academy converter
Redhill School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,204of 1,175 places
- Free school meals
- 25.2%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 242
- Ofsted
- Good, 25 June 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Redhill School and Specialist Language College (URN 103865, until 1 July 2013).
What the data says
Redhill School has no sixth form. Of the 249 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 31% moved to a sixth form college, 50% to a further education college and 2% started an apprenticeship.
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 36% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 31% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were in line with the national picture: Attainment 8 of 47.8 against 46.1 across England and 43.0 in Dudley, with 54% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Dudley and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Redhill School | Dudley | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 249 | 3,412 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 91% | 90% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 89% | 84% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 8% | 12% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 31% | 12% | 13% |
| — further education college | 50% | 59% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 1% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | — | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 5% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 4% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Redhill School | Dudley | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 47.8 | 43.0 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 54% | 41% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% | 61% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 72% | 31% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.50 | 3.69 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 24% | 30% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 39.2 | 32.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 50.4 | 47.6 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 4% | 11% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 241 | 100% | 89% | 13% | 20% | 79% |
| Mathematics | 241 | 100% | 88% | 18% | 22% | 77% |
| English Literature | 235 | 97% | 86% | 8% | 21% | 79% |
| Combined Science | 176 | 73% | 65% | 7% | 9% | 65% |
| Geography | 142 | 59% | 41% | 23% | 25% | 69% |
| History | 99 | 41% | 41% | 22% | 26% | 70% |
| Spanish | 90 | 37% | 19% | 11% | 27% | 80% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 88 | 36% | 8% | 17% | 21% | 69% |
| Physical Education | 88 | 36% | 11% | 15% | 24% | 74% |
| French | 85 | 35% | 18% | 14% | 29% | 81% |
| Biology | 61 | 25% | 23% | 51% | 45% | 98% |
| Physics | 60 | 25% | 23% | 42% | 46% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 60 | 25% | 23% | 50% | 47% | 100% |
| Business Studies | 60 | 25% | 18% | 15% | 20% | 73% |
| Art and Design | 49 | 20% | 7% | 16% | 24% | 84% |
| Design and Technology | 37 | 15% | 11% | 24% | 23% | 68% |
| Music | 32 | 13% | 5% | 22% | 33% | 56% |
| Drama | 21 | 9% | 7% | 10% | 27% | 76% |
| Photography | 19 | 8% | 6% | 5% | 19% | 42% |
| Religious Studies | 18 | 7% | 31% | 39% | 32% | 72% |
| Psychology | 1 | 0% | 3% | — | 22% | — |
| Fine Art | 1 | 0% | 9% | — | 28% | — |
| Sociology | 1 | 0% | 4% | — | 21% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 39 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 1 | — | — |
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Old Swinford Hospital
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.