Highters Heath Community School
General Information
- Address: Highters Heath Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 4LY – View on map
- Phone: 01214642459
- Headteacher: Mrs Julie Aulton
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 15 families put it first for 18 places – 8 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 8 · 2024 9 · 2025 7 · 2026 8
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 103
- % eligible for free school meals: 62.0%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 38% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 21.9% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 40% moved to another school, 60% 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: 7.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 18.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 16.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card November 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 Expected standard
- Achievement Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Strong standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Inadequate (2022). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Birmingham average (65%)
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 73% · Writing 77% · Maths 77% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 77%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 103
- Based on: 26 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 135th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =135Brookvale Primary School65%
- =135Greenholm Primary School65%
- =135Highters Heath Community School65%
- =135Kingsland Primary School (NC)65%
- =135Raddlebarn Primary School65%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,450 (2024-25)
24th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #22Court Farm Primary School£8,487
- #23St Joseph's Catholic Primary School£8,473
- #24Highters Heath Community School£8,450
- #25Park Hill Primary School£8,422
- #26Tiverton Academy£8,367
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