{"url":"/school/145176/brewood-middle-cofe-academy","disclaimer":"This is information only, not advice. It may have mistakes in it, or be out of date. Check with the school and the council before you decide anything.","urn":145176,"name":"Brewood Middle CofE Academy","phase":"middle_deemed_secondary","type":"Academy sponsor led","local_authority":"Staffordshire","structure_change":{"kind":"became_academy","date":"2019-10-01","previous_urn":124452,"previous_name":"Brewood CofE (C) Middle School","in_words":"This school became an academy on 1 October 2019. Before that it was a voluntary controlled school, under Brewood CofE (C) Middle School (URN 124452).","note":"The same school under a new school number. Demand figures before the change are carried from the previous record and marked with held_as."},"about_the_school":{"facts":[{"label":"Type of school","value":"Academy"},{"label":"Academy trust","value":"St Chad's Academies Trust"},{"label":"Became an academy","value":"1 October 2019. Before that it was a voluntary controlled school, under Brewood CofE (C) Middle School (URN 124452)."},{"label":"Ages","value":"9 to 13"},{"label":"Boys or girls","value":"Boys and girls"},{"label":"Religious character","value":"Church of England, Diocese of Lichfield"},{"label":"Website","value":"https://www.brewood.staffs.sch.uk","url":"https://www.brewood.staffs.sch.uk"},{"label":"Telephone","value":"01902 850266","url":"tel:01902850266"},{"label":"School number (URN)","value":"145176"}],"website":"https://www.brewood.staffs.sch.uk","telephone":"01902850266","academy_trust":"ST CHAD'S ACADEMIES TRUST","other_schools_in_trust":{"count":18,"nearest":[{"urn":146427,"name":"St Mary's CofE First Academy","distance_miles":3.4},{"urn":140858,"name":"Havergal CofE (C) Primary School","distance_miles":4.2},{"urn":140355,"name":"St Jude's Church of England Primary Academy","distance_miles":6.0},{"urn":145288,"name":"Trinity CofE Primary Academy","distance_miles":6.2},{"urn":141410,"name":"All Saints National Academy","distance_miles":8.2},{"urn":139435,"name":"Birchills Church of England Community Academy","distance_miles":9.8},{"urn":143348,"name":"St John's CofE Primary Academy","distance_miles":10.0},{"urn":140856,"name":"St John's Church of England Primary Academy","distance_miles":10.9},{"urn":144386,"name":"Churchfield CofE Primary Academy","distance_miles":11.5},{"urn":142982,"name":"St Peter's Church of England Primary Academy","distance_miles":12.3}],"note":"Schools run by the same trust that have a page on this site, nearest first. Not a ranking."},"federation":null,"note":"From Get Information about Schools. Schools update their own entries, so these can be out of date."},"how_to_apply":{"middle_school_entry":true,"process_checked":true,"in_words":["Children usually start at this school in Year 5. A place is not automatic: families apply to the council where they live.","In Staffordshire, applications for a middle school place close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are sent on Friday 16 April 2027. This is the same timetable as primary schools.","If you live in another council's area, apply through that council."],"council_page":{"council":"Staffordshire","url":"https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/school-admissions/applying-primary-and-middle-school-places","checked_on":"2026-09-28"},"school_website":"https://www.brewood.staffs.sch.uk","school_telephone":"01902850266","note":"Links and dates can change. Your council's own website has the final word."},"address":{"line1":"School Road","town":"Stafford","postcode":"ST19 9DS","latitude":52.675412,"longitude":-2.176783},"ofsted":{"current_category_of_concern":null,"inspections":[{"framework":"oeif","framework_label":"Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework)","inspection_date":"2024-03-12","overall_effectiveness":"Good","category_of_concern":null,"note":"The current framework awards no overall grade; a previous-framework grade is not a school's current one."}]},"demand":{"entry_point":"year_5","not_the_main_intake":{"starts_at":"Year 5","figures_for":"Year 7","intake_year":2021,"offers":22,"first_preferences":14,"in_words":["Children usually start at this school in Year 5.","The government publishes application figures only for the years when most children in England start a new school: Reception and Year 7, and Year 9 at some upper schools. So we have no figures for how many families applied for this school's main intake.","The figures that are published are for the few children who joined in Year 7: in 2021, 14 families putting it first and 22 offers. They do not show how popular the school is, so we do not use them to compare it with other schools or with its own past."]},"measure":"first preferences expressed divided by offers made","not_a_prediction":"It describes demand. It does not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.","movement":null,"includes_predecessor":{"schools":[{"urn":124452,"name":"Brewood CofE (C) Middle School"}],"years":[2019],"first_own_year":2020,"sentence":"Figures before 2020 are from Brewood CofE (C) Middle School, the school this one replaced, before it became an academy. The government's school register links the two, and they are the same school."},"compared_with_its_own_past":null,"by_year":[{"intake_year":2021,"first_preferences":14,"all_preferences":27,"offers_made":22,"first_preferences_per_place":0.64,"national_percentile":15.0,"held_as":null},{"intake_year":2020,"first_preferences":22,"all_preferences":40,"offers_made":28,"first_preferences_per_place":0.79,"national_percentile":25.0,"held_as":null},{"intake_year":2019,"first_preferences":8,"all_preferences":23,"offers_made":17,"first_preferences_per_place":0.47,"national_percentile":6.0,"held_as":{"urn":124452,"name":"Brewood CofE (C) Middle School"}}]},"results":{"note":"Withheld figures appear as null, never zero. Progress measures are estimates published with a 95% interval.","key_stage_4":[],"key_stage_2":[{"academic_year":2024,"expected_standard_rwm_percent":49.0,"higher_standard_rwm_percent":4.0,"reading_average_score":104.0,"maths_average_score":102.0},{"academic_year":2023,"expected_standard_rwm_percent":51.0,"higher_standard_rwm_percent":2.0,"reading_average_score":105.0,"maths_average_score":103.0},{"academic_year":2022,"expected_standard_rwm_percent":51.0,"higher_standard_rwm_percent":2.0,"reading_average_score":103.0,"maths_average_score":101.0}]},"workforce":{"note":"Full-time equivalents, not headcounts. Teacher turnover only: carries no claim about heads or senior leaders.","by_year":[{"academic_year":2024,"teacher_fte":21.8,"remained":15.4,"left_the_system":5.4,"left_to_other_school":1.0,"left_percent":29.4},{"academic_year":2023,"teacher_fte":23.8,"remained":20.0,"left_the_system":2.8,"left_to_other_school":1.0,"left_percent":16.0},{"academic_year":2022,"teacher_fte":21.1,"remained":17.8,"left_the_system":3.3,"left_to_other_school":0.0,"left_percent":15.6},{"academic_year":2021,"teacher_fte":21.0,"remained":17.4,"left_the_system":3.6,"left_to_other_school":0.0,"left_percent":17.1},{"academic_year":2020,"teacher_fte":20.8,"remained":17.6,"left_the_system":1.5,"left_to_other_school":1.7,"left_percent":15.4},{"academic_year":2019,"teacher_fte":19.7,"remained":18.7,"left_the_system":1.0,"left_to_other_school":0.0,"left_percent":5.1}]},"catchment":{"status":"none_published","note":"none_published means we hold no zone for this school. It does not mean an address is outside one.","zones":[]},"what_the_results_are_made_of":[{"years":[2022,2023,2024],"values":[51.0,51.0,49.0],"lowest":49.0,"lowest_year":2024,"highest":51.0,"highest_year":2022,"swing":2.0,"cohort":112,"points_per_child":0.9,"national_swing":13.0,"sentences":["Across the 3 years published, this measure ran from 49% in 2024 to 51% in 2022, a difference of 2 points.","Year 6 had 112 children, so one child is worth about 0.9 percentage points and that difference is about 2 children.","Half of schools in England move by 13 points or more across the same three years, so movement on this scale is ordinary rather than a sign of anything."],"stage":"Key stage 2","measure":"reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths"}],"how_big_the_school_is":{"year":2024,"places":432,"roll_compared_with_its_own_past":{"direction":"same","average":432.0,"earlier_years":[2018,2020,2021,2022,2023]},"pupils_on_roll":426,"unfilled_places":6,"pupils_over_capacity":0,"unfilled_percent":1.4,"sites":1,"first_year":2009,"years_held":15,"in_words":["In 2024 this school had 432 places and 426 children on roll.","6 places were unfilled, which is 1% of the school.","In 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 the school had 432 children on roll on average, against 426 in 2024. Some of those years are from its record under an earlier school number.","Places are the whole school added up, every year group together. That is not the number of places a school offers to new children in one year."],"note":"Places are the whole school across every year group. This is not a published admission number and not the number of places offered to new children in a year."},"children_in_each_year_group":{"census_january":2026,"year_groups":[{"year_group":"Year group 5","pupils":101},{"year_group":"Year group 6","pupils":112},{"year_group":"Year group 7","pupils":100},{"year_group":"Year group 8","pupils":109}],"note":"Children, not places, counted on one day in January. This is not a list of spare places: no capacity per year group is published anywhere, so there is nothing to subtract from, and in-year admission changes these counts all year. Ask the local council about a place during the school year."},"who_goes_to_this_school":{"academic_year":2025,"census_january":2026,"fsm_percent":21.1,"fsm_eligible":89,"headcount":422,"first_language_other_percent":0.2,"phase_median_fsm_percent":null,"comparison_group":null,"in_words":["In January 2026, 89 of the 422 children here were known to be eligible for free school meals. That is 21 in every 100.","English was the first language for nearly every child here.","This describes the children who go to this school. It is not a measure of the school. Most children go to a school near home, so it is mostly a fact about the streets around it.","This matters when reading results. Across the 15,153 schools we hold 2024 key stage 2 results for, the fifth with the fewest eligible children averaged 70% reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. The fifth with the most averaged 48%.","Those are averages of many schools all over the country. This school's own results are further down this page exactly as published."],"note":"A description of the children who attend, not a measure of the school. Intake explains much of the spread in published results, so this belongs beside them and never instead of them. No result on this page is adjusted, weighted or ranked using it."},"if_you_are_refused_a_place":{"appeal_year":2026,"school_phase":"Total","appeals_lodged":395,"appeals_heard":284,"appeals_successful":44,"successful_percent":15.5,"infant_class_rule_applies":false,"authority_name":"Staffordshire","in_words":["In 2026, families in Staffordshire lodged 395 appeals about a school place.","284 of them were heard by a panel and 44 succeeded, which is about 15 in every 100 heard.","The other 111 did not reach a panel. Most appeals that do not are withdrawn because a place comes up first.","This is a record of decisions already made. A panel hears one case at a time and decides it on what that family sets out, so these figures do not indicate what would happen in any particular appeal.","These count appeals about every school in Staffordshire, not this school. Nobody publishes appeal figures school by school."],"note":"Appeals about every school in this council area, not this school. The success share is taken over appeals HEARD by a panel, not over appeals lodged: about a third of lodged appeals never reach a panel. A record of past decisions and never a forecast of one."},"special_educational_needs":{"academic_year":2025,"census_january":2026,"total_pupils":422,"ehc_plan":9,"ehc_plan_percent":2.1,"sen_support":57,"sen_support_percent":13.5,"has_sen_unit":false,"has_resourced_provision":false,"national_ehc_plan_percent":3.5,"in_words":["In January 2026, 9 of the 422 children here had an education, health and care plan. That is 2 in every 100. Across schools in England the middle figure is 4 in every 100.","A further 57 were on SEN support, which is help arranged by the school without a plan. That is 14 in every 100, against a middle figure of 15 in every 100 across England.","A school named in a child's education, health and care plan has to admit that child. That duty holds even when the school is full, and it sits outside the rules that decide who gets a place when there are more children than places. Which school is named is decided with the council while the plan is being written, not through the normal application."],"note":"has_sen_unit and has_resourced_provision say only that the school runs one. The source records neither how many children it takes nor which kinds of need it is set up for, and neither may be inferred. A school named in a child's education, health and care plan must admit that child, outside the normal oversubscription rules."},"where_families_ranked_this_school":null,"how_places_are_decided":null,"when_to_apply":null,"waiting_lists":null,"who_decides_who_gets_a_place":{"admission_authority":"school","body":"its academy trust","in_words":"This school sets its own admission rules, through its academy trust, rather than Staffordshire setting them.","where_to_look":"Look on the school's own website for its admission arrangements. An admission authority has to agree its rules every year and publish them. The council still takes the application.","note":"Derived from the school's establishment type. The rules themselves are not reproduced: only the admission authority's own published arrangements are binding."},"how_places_were_allocated":[],"how_far_away_children_were_admitted_from":null,"how_the_places_were_shared_out":[],"sources":[{"label":"Department for Education: Get Information about Schools","detail":"School identity, type, phase, address, contact details and how it is run","url":"https://get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/","retrieved":"2026-09-02"},{"label":"Staffordshire: applying for a middle school place","detail":"Page checked 28 September 2026","url":"https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/school-admissions/applying-primary-and-middle-school-places","retrieved":null},{"label":"Ofsted: state-funded school inspections management information","detail":"Inspection outcomes, published monthly","url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/monthly-management-information-ofsteds-school-inspections-outcomes","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"label":"Department for Education: school-level applications and offers","detail":"Preferences and offers, 2019 to 2021 intakes","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/primary-and-secondary-school-applications-and-offers","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"label":"Department for Education: school pupils and their characteristics","detail":"Children in each year group, January 2026 census","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics","retrieved":null},{"label":"Department for Education: school capacity","detail":"Places and pupils on roll, 2009 to 2024","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-capacity","retrieved":null},{"label":"Department for Education: key stage 2 attainment","detail":"Reading, writing and maths outcomes, by school","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/key-stage-2-attainment","retrieved":"2026-09-04"},{"label":"Department for Education: school workforce in England","detail":"Teacher turnover, by school, from the School Workforce Census","url":"https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england","retrieved":"2026-09-04"}]}