Glenmead Primary School
General Information
- Address: Glenmead Road, Birmingham, B44 8UQ – View on map
- Phone: 01214643173
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Louise Spencer
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 24 families put it first for 27 places – 9 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 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 8 · 2026 9
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 119
- % eligible for free school meals: 45.2%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 25% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.5% 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: 4.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 13.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 9 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 57% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 47% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 47%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 73% · Maths 83% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 77%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 105
- Based on: 30 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 195th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =187Yarnfield Primary School58%
- =195Bellfield Junior School57%
- =195Glenmead Primary School57%
- =195Oasis Academy Woodview57%
- =195Saint Barnabas Church of England Primary School57%
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57th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #55Forestdale Primary SchoolGood
- #56Gilbertstone Primary SchoolGood
- #57Glenmead Primary SchoolGood
- #58Green Meadow Primary SchoolGood
- #59Greenholm Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,562 (2024-25)
82nd of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #80Woodgate Primary School£7,578
- #81Cherry Orchard Primary School£7,568
- #82Glenmead Primary School£7,562
- #83West Heath Primary School£7,550
- #84Elms Farm Community Primary School£7,545
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