Heart of Worcestershire College
Heart of Worcestershire College is a further education in Redditch for boys and girls aged 14 to 99.
Peakman Campus, Peakman Street, Redditch, B98 8DW0844 880 2500howcollege.ac.ukMrs Michelle Dowse principalAll details
Ofsted
Ofsted hasn't published an inspection for this school yet.
Results
A level and sixth-form results, 2025
1,342 students finished sixth-form courses.
All sixth-form measures, year by year
| Measure | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2019 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students | 1,342 | 1,338 | 1,360 | 1,347 | 2,515 | 2,687 |
| Average A level grade | – | – | z | z | – | – |
| Applied general courses: points per entry | 25.61 | 23.66 | 26.11 | 23.24 | – | – |
| T levels: points per entry | 25.62 | 28.10 | 24.63 | 29.69 | – | – |
Getting a place
Admissions policy not published.
Each council publishes its own figures on how many families applied and how far away the last child to get a place lived. We are adding councils one at a time. If you have a link to Worcestershire council's admissions booklet, send it to us.
Who goes here
Who the school teaches, from the latest school census.
What pupils do next
After sixth form
Where the 1,232 pupils who left in 2022/23 were a year later.
Among pupils from low-income families it was 60%, compared with 77% for everyone else.
Where the ones heading for university went
Among students from low-income families, 25% went on to degree-level study or training and 2% to a top-third university.
Earlier years
| Destination | 2022/23 leavers | 2021/22 leavers | 2020/21 leavers | 2019/20 leavers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still in education, work or training | 72% | 71% | 74% | – |
| Education | 19% | 20% | 20% | – |
| Apprenticeship | 13% | 9% | 11% | 1% |
| Work | 40% | 42% | 43% | – |
| Not in education, work or training | 22% | 23% | 21% | – |
The area around the school
Crime figures come from police.uk. The police record each crime at the nearest of a fixed set of map points rather than the exact spot, so “within 500 m” is only rough. House prices are from HM Land Registry sales nearby over the last two years.
Nearby schools
The closest schools, nearest first. Hover over a row to see it on the map.
| School | Type | Distance | Pupils | Ofsted | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity High School and Sixth Form Centre | Academy | 240 m | 958 | Good 2024 | 29 | Compare |
| Holyoakes Field First School | Academy | 670 m | 315 | No overall grade 2024 | 55 | Compare |
| St George's CofE First School and Nursery | Academy | 680 m | 170 | Requires improvement 2024 | 1 | Compare |
| The Forge Secondary Short Stay School | Pupil referral unit | 750 m | 20 | Good 2024 | – | Compare |
| St Stephen's CofE First School | Academy | 750 m | 171 | Good 2024 | 64 | Compare |
| St Bede's Catholic Middle School | Academy | 970 m | 646 | Good 2023 | 64 | Compare |
| Birchensale Middle School | Academy | 0.6 miles | 522 | No overall grade 2025 | 52 | Compare |
| St Luke's CofE First School | Academy | 0.9 miles | 138 | Requires improvement 2024 | 1 | Compare |
Questions parents ask
Is Heart of Worcestershire College a good school?
We don't have enough published data to score Heart of Worcestershire College yet.
How many pupils does Heart of Worcestershire College have?
The number of pupils is not published.
These answers come straight from the figures on this page and update when new data comes out.
Contact and details
- Address
- Peakman Campus, Peakman Street, Redditch, B98 8DW
- Telephone
- 0844 880 2500
- Website
- www.howcollege.ac.uk
- Principal
- Mrs Michelle Dowse
- Type of school
- Further education (Further education, colleges)
- Phase
- College, ages 14-99, with nursery
- Gender
- Mixed
- Local authority
- Worcestershire
- Ward
- Central
- Constituency
- Redditch
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- URN
- 130713 · LAESTAB 8858007 · UKPRN 10007977
Where these figures come from
- School details: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools, refreshed daily (this page rebuilt 13 September 2026).
- Inspections: Ofsted management information, monthly; latest publication in our data 27 August 2026.
- Neighbourhood: police.uk street-level crime, HM Land Registry price paid data, NaPTAN bus stops, English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
- All under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Full list and update calendar.