Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy
General Information
- Address: Aldridge Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B44 8NT – View on map
- Phone: 01214642251
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Rhiannon Suttle
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 57 families put it first for 60 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 4 of the 60 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 12 · 2024 13 · 2025 11 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 129
- % eligible for free school meals: 30.1%
- Pupil mix: 9 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 12% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 10.5% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 42% moved to another school, 58% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Birmingham: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 21 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 2
- Suspensions for bullying: 38 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 4 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Birmingham, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 5.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 14.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 11.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 19 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 19 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 4 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Physical disability: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 71% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 80% against an expected 60%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 80%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 83% · Maths 88% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 85%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 60 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 86th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =78St Peters CofE Primary School72%
- =78Sutton Park Primary72%
- =86Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy71%
- =86Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior71%
- =86St Francis Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery71%
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28th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #26Audley Primary SchoolGood
- #27Barford Primary SchoolGood
- #28Barr View Primary & Nursery AcademyGood
- #29Beeches Primary SchoolGood
- #30Bellfield Primary School (NC)Good
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,172 (2024-25)
217th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #215Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy (Handsworth)£6,195
- #216St Thomas More Catholic Primary School£6,191
- #217Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy£6,172
- #218Moor Green Primary Academy£6,148
- #219The Deanery Church of England Primary School£6,143
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