E-ACT Nechells Academy
General Information
- Address: Eliot Street, Nechells, Birmingham, B7 5LB – View on map
- Phone: 01214642102
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Ms Kathy Mellor
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 17 families put it first for 17 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: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 124
- % eligible for free school meals: 72.9%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 59% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 15% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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: 4.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.8%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 5.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Multi-sensory impairment: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card December 2025
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Needs attention
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 50% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 15 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 32% against an expected 51%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 32%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 75% · Writing 75% · Maths 50% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 71%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 99
- Based on: 28 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 227th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =225Birches Green Primary School51%
- =225Hollywood Primary School51%
- =227E-ACT Nechells Academy50%
- =227Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School50%
- =227Our Lady and St Rose of Lima Catholic Primary School50%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,202 (2024-25)
118th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #116Shaw Hill Primary School£7,220
- #117St John's CofE Primary School£7,205
- #118E-ACT Nechells Academy£7,202
- #119St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School£7,198
- #120Rookery School£7,181
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