Firs Primary School
General Information
- Address: Dreghorn Road, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, B36 8LL – View on map
- Phone: 01214643792
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Camron Mills
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 28 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 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 207
- % eligible for free school meals: 74.2%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 66% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 42.7% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 58% moved to another school, 42% 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: 8.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 30.5%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 21 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 16 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card February 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching Needs attention
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Needs attention
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Needs attention
- Leadership and governance Needs attention
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Requires improvement (2023). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 48% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 7% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 17 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 35% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 35%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 66% · Writing 52% · Maths 53% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 59%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 100
- Based on: 58 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 234th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =231The Rosary Catholic Primary School49%
- =234Deykin Avenue Junior and Infant School48%
- =234Firs Primary School48%
- =234Paget Primary School48%
- =234Robin Hood Academy48%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,786 (2024-25)
161st of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #159Mansfield Green E-ACT Academy£6,796
- #160Erdington Hall Primary School£6,792
- #161Firs Primary School£6,786
- #162Hawkesley Church Primary Academy£6,781
- #163Raddlebarn Primary School£6,756
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