Birches Green Primary School
General Information
- Address: Birches Green Road, Erdington, Birmingham, B24 9SR – View on map
- Phone: 01214644310
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Anna Stevenson
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 54 families put it first for 55 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 250
- % eligible for free school meals: 62.5%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 44% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.9% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 40% moved to another school, 60% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 2 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: 7.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 24.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 21 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 19 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
An Ofsted rating for this school hasn't been added yet.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 51% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 73% · Writing 75% · Maths 69% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 78%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 55 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 225th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =221St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) School52%
- =221St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School52%
- =225Birches Green Primary School51%
- =225Hollywood Primary School51%
- =227E-ACT Nechells Academy50%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,991 (2024-25)
140th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #138Hollywood Primary School£7,010
- #139Heath Mount Primary School£6,994
- #140Birches Green Primary School£6,991
- #141St Peters CofE Primary School£6,983
- #142English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School£6,980
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