Coventry Alternative Provision Academy
- Alternative provision
- Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- Ages 11 to 16
URN 150652 · Coventry · SOLIHULL ALTERNATIVE PROVISION MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest graded inspection
28 June 2022Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against Coventry and England, alternative provision.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/25214.08
- Coventry
- 208.22
- England
- 248.42
34.34 lower than England.
Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
2024/250.00
- Coventry
- 0.00
- England
- 0.30
0.30 lower than England.
Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Pupils
Against Coventry and England, alternative provision.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2566.2%
- Coventry
- 65.8%
- England
- 63.2%
3.0 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/2549.3%
- Coventry
- 47.9%
- England
- 57.1%
7.8 percentage points lower than England.
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/2511.3%
- Coventry
- 13.7%
- England
- 26.3%
15.0 percentage points lower than England.
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/2511.3%
- Coventry
- 11.0%
- England
- 7.6%
3.7 percentage points higher than England.
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Coventry and England, alternative provision.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/264.8
- Coventry
- 7.8
- England
- 7.3
2.5 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Coventry | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 7.6 | 6.7 |
| 2018/19 | Not published | 7.1 | 6.8 |
| 2019/20 | Not published | 6.6 | 7.0 |
| 2020/21 | Not published | 6.7 | 6.8 |
| 2021/22 | Not published | 6.7 | 6.9 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 7.1 | 7.0 |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 7.5 | 7.1 |
| 2024/25 | 4.3 | 7.6 | 7.3 |
| 2025/26 | 4.8 | 7.8 | 7.3 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/2515.4 days
- Coventry
- 6.2 days
- England
- 5.0 days
10.4 days higher than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 59
- Capacity
- 120
- Type
- Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- Phase
- Alternative provision
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- SOLIHULL ALTERNATIVE PROVISION MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Opened
- 1 September 2024
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Coventry East
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 5 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Axholme Road, Wyken, Coventry, CV2 5BD
Website: www.coventryacademy.org.uk
Telephone: 02476101490
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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