• Dyslexia Assessments
• Educating Young Peaople With Troubles
• One To One Support

Education and Training Provider

Business Profile

Birmingham-based Archway Academy successfully provides a variety of learning programmes for young people who may have experienced difficulties in mainstream education, with the overall objective of helping them to become economically inclusive.

About Us

Founded in 2004 by principal and managing director Jim Ryan, it was registered as an independent school in October 2007 following a stringent Ofsted inspection. Education and skills are provided for 16 to 19 year-old students, mainly from Birmingham and Solihull, but also from Sandwell, Worcester, Kidderminster and Bromsgrove.


The academy delivers a specialist approach for those who may otherwise have had to go to residential education institutions and its one-to-one provision allows you people to remain within their own communities and receive holistic support from academy.


This involves working with their families and various agencies to deliver and educational package that will enable young people to take a responsible place in society.

One-to-one education provision to provide local authorities with an alternative to residential care as, in many cases, it is so much better for the young person. Prior to this local authorise did not have an alternative.