King Edward VI Five Ways School, B32 4BT

School Introduction

King Edward VI Five Ways School is a mixed co-educational grammar school, meaning it’s attended by both girls and boys, has a selective admissions process, and is non fee paying, it is the only school of this kind in the West Midlands with the other grammar schools all being single gendered. The school has been recently renovated and has also had some new buildings developed including; The Chowen Sixth Form Centre, a Drama Studio, and a  £1 million Osmend Language Centre and Pavilion complex. When the school became fully co-educational in 2003, the MacCarthy building was erected which has specialist classrooms and facilities for English, Religious Studies, Art, Photography, Expressive Arts and Food Technology. As well as this the school has extensive sports facilities with a climbing wall, dance studio, swimming pool and fitness suite as well as an outdoor astro-turf pitch. 

In 2019 they opened a new Music School in our Eyles Centre which includes practice rooms, recording facilities, office space and music classrooms. Students have the opportunity to learn an instrument during their time at the school, and will receive assistance with the costs of extra music tuition. 

Key Facts

Address: Scotland Ln, Bartley Green, Birmingham B32 4BT

County: Birmingham

Age Range: 11-18

Type of School: Mixed Gender Grammar

Number of Pupils: 1305

Ofsted Rating: Outstanding (2008)

Religious Character: Christian

School Performance

Progress 8 – This score indicates the progress made by pupils at the school between the end of KS2 and the end of KS4. It’s averaged against the pupils across England and based on the results in 8 key qualifications including English, Maths Sciences, Humanities and Languages. Looking at the students achievements and progress from the end of primary school and throughout secondary school. This is therefore a useful comparison and can highlight schools in which students show large improvements or alternately in which students seem to underachieve after their time at the school. Out of the 5 degrees, the schools achieving ‘above average’ and ‘well above average’ scores make up just 31% of schools in the UK, the rest being average or below average. The score of 0 represents around the national average grade, hence a score of 0.62 means that students are achieving around 60% of a grade higher than the national average. With a score of 1 representing a whole grade higher than national average.

Attainment 8: 76.9 – This score indicates the performance of students in 8 key qualifications – the same as progress 8, comparatively to the other schools in the local authority, then in England on average. 

Boys who sat the IB Diploma in 2022 achieved excellent results, highlights of which include:

• Average points score per pupil of 39.6 points (10 points above the usual IB global average for an examined year) 
• 60% of the cohort scored 40 points or above
• 6 boys gained the maximum 45 points – a score achieved by less than 0.5% of students worldwide 
• 25 boys gained 44 or 43 points 

The 143 boys who took their GCSEs in 2022 produced another set of outstanding results, highlights include 51 boys achieving at least ten 9s/8s, 21 boys achieving nine 9s/8s. In 2022, 73.5% got 9/8 and 89.4% got 9/8/7.