Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School
General Information
- Address: 29 Ravenhurst Street, Camp Hill, Birmingham, B12 0EJ – View on map
- Phone: 01216937742
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Susan Sidhu
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 4 families put it first for 6 places – 7 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 8 · 2025 6 · 2026 7
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Seventh Day Adventist
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 46
- % eligible for free school meals: 33.3%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (similar to the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 42% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 35% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 30% moved to another school, 70% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
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: 4.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 7.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 18.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2025 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 50% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (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 42% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 42%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 71% · Writing 71% · Maths 57% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 68%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 101
- 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
- =225Hollywood Primary School51%
- =227E-ACT Nechells Academy50%
- =227Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School50%
- =227Our Lady and St Rose of Lima Catholic Primary School50%
- =227Wychall Primary School50%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,012 (2024-25)
48th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #46St Jude's Catholic Primary School£8,019
- #47Kingsland Primary School (NC)£8,012
- #48Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School£8,012
- #49Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery£8,008
- #50Yew Tree Community Junior and Infant School (NC)£8,002
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