Holyhead School

Holyhead School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England.[1]

Holyhead School
Address
Milestone Lane Handsworth Birmingham , West Midlands , B21 0HN England
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	"Engage, Enable, Educate"
Local authority	Birmingham City Council
Department for Education URN	137034 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Mr Ross Trafford (January 2017)
Staff	>120
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,249 as of March 2016
Houses	Meriden, Edgeware, Oswestry, Corwen
Colour(s)	Navy, Red, Green, Light Blue
Website	http://www.holyheadschool.org.uk/

Previously a foundation school administered by Birmingham City Council, Holyhead School converted to academy status in August 2011. The school became part of the RSA Academies Trust in September 2014,[2] but continues to coordinate with Birmingham City Council for admissions for its Year 7 intake.

In 2014, the school was described as "outstanding" by Ofsted, which stated that "achievement in mathematics has been consistently outstanding".[3] The school's continuing achievements in Mathematics had also recently been further recognised when the department had been nominated for the "TES Maths department of the Year 2015/16" award.[4]

Holyhead School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs.[5]

In January 2017, long standing principal Martin Bayliss and colleague Amanda Cottam retired after 17 and 38 years teaching at the school respectively. After a long recruitment process, it was decided that the then Head of Key Stage 3, Ross Trafford, would be promoted to the role.[6]