BIRCHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Price Bailey LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Academy has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason it continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “Attendance is emerging as a significant challenge for the School and understanding the reasons underlying poor attendance and developing and implementing an effective strategy will be a key priority in 2025-26.”
• “For September 2025, we enrolled 212 Year 7 students significantly down from our anticipated 240 PAN level. Sixth Form enrolment was also lower than that the anticipated 130 in September 2025 at 121, with 122 students currently in Year 13.”
• “The School introduced a new online system SOCS to register and monitor attendance at the clubs and activities offered.”
• “In 2024-25 there were several changes in the management structure and there were significant pressures on cost of catering provisions and a loss of £93,889 was reported.”
• “The lettings activity paid for the replacement of the cricket strip (with help of a donation from the PSFA).”
• “The final outturn for 2024-25 showed a deficit in the income and expenditure account of £195,620, excluding the restricted fixed asset fund and pension reserve.”
• “During the current academic year the School undertook a number of repair and maintenance projects including the replacement of another boiler, a cull of batteries for the fire alarm system and further improvements of the physical safety systems around the School.”
• “During the summer the School undertook a major overhaul of the IT network with the removal of the RM infrastructure and implementing a "vanilla" network. In addition the School converted a Tech classroom C8 to be another computer room and continued its rolling programme of laptop and desktops replacements to meet the Windows 11 standards.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +9.7%

  £10,507,091 → £11,529,656

• Cash

  -20.9%

  £1,385,426 → £1,096,128

• Net assets

  -6.8%

  £8,231,874 → £7,668,447

• Employees

  +2.4%

  164 → 168

• Operating profit

  -4%

  -£509,230 → -£529,427

• Profit before tax

  -2.2%

  -£509,230 → -£520,427

• Wages

  +8.1%

  £6,048,731 → £6,536,361

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers