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The Brier School

  • Special
  • Academy special converter
  • Ages 4 to 16

URN 151763 · Dudley · ASCENT MULTI ACADEMY TRUST

In Dudley

Inspection

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.

Latest graded inspection

14 February 2023

Overall effectiveness
Outstanding

Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Early years provision
Outstanding
Safeguarding is effective
Yes

This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.

Full inspection (section 5)

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.

Key stage 4 results

Against Dudley and England, secondary schools.

Attainment 8

2025/26 (provisional)

1.1

Not compared with mainstream schools.

The average of pupils' points across eight GCSE-level qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

English and maths: grade 4 or above

2025/26 (provisional)

0%

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 4 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

English and maths: grade 5 or above

2025/26 (provisional)

0%

Not compared with mainstream schools.

Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.

Teachers

Against Dudley and England, special schools.

Pupils per qualified teacher

2025/26

9.9

Dudley
7.3
England
7.3

2.6 higher than England.

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

2024/25

Not publishedNot published for this school

Dudley
4.4 days
England
5.0 days

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
219
Capacity
203
Type
Academy special converter
Phase
Special
Age range
4 to 16
Gender
Mixed
Trust
ASCENT MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Opened
1 June 2025
Setting
Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Constituency
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
Special educational needs provision
VI - Visual Impairment; OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability; SLCN - Speech, language and Communication; ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder; PD - Physical Disability; MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty; SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
Decile 4 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)

Address: Bromley Lane, Kingswinford, West Midlands, DY6 8QN

Website: www.brier.dudley.sch.uk

Telephone: 01384816000

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Sources and corrections

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