Clifton Primary School
General Information
- Address: Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 8NX – View on map
- Phone: 01214642926
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Nicola Hemming
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 67 families put it first for 73 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 2 of the 73 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 511
- % eligible for free school meals: 62.3%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 88% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 18.7% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 29% moved to another school, 71% 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: 7.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 21.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 130 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 26 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 9 pupils
- Vision impairment: 5 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2019 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 68% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 5% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 3 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 61% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 61%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 73% · Writing 73% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 69%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 106
- Based on: 118 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 109th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =100Ward End Primary School69%
- =109Adderley Primary School68%
- =109Clifton Primary School68%
- =109Cotteridge Primary School68%
- =109Green Meadow Primary School68%
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45th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #43Chilwell Croft AcademyGood
- #44City Road Primary SchoolGood
- #45Clifton Primary SchoolGood
- #46Cofton Primary SchoolGood
- #47Colebourne Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,888 (2024-25)
52nd of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #50Yew Tree Community Junior and Infant School (NC)£8,002
- #51Nelson Primary School£7,977
- #52Clifton Primary School£7,888
- #53Moseley Church of England Primary School£7,887
- #54James Watt Primary School£7,854
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