Lift Percy Shurmer
General Information
- Address: Longmore Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 9ED – View on map
- Phone: 01214643431
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Miss Marie Duffy
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 80 families put it first for 60 places – 13 for every 10 places. 73% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 13 · 2024 11 · 2025 13 · 2026 13
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 305
- % eligible for free school meals: 72.6%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (similar to the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 68% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 14.9% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 17% moved to another school, 83% 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: 6.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Hearing impairment 24 places · 24 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.6%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 33 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Hearing impairment: 24 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Outstanding 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 86% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 21 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 86% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 86%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 90% · Writing 91% · Maths 90% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 90%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- 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: 11th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =8The Olive School, Birmingham88%
- #10The Shirestone Academy87%
- #11Lift Percy Shurmer86%
- #12Ark Victoria Academy85%
- =13Lift Lea Forest84%
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3rd of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #1Billesley Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #2Lift Lea ForestOutstanding
- #3Lift Percy ShurmerOutstanding
- #4Little Sutton Primary SchoolOutstanding
- #5Mansfield Green E-ACT AcademyOutstanding
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £8,025 (2024-25)
45th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #43Minworth Junior and Infant School£8,055
- #44Little Sutton Primary School£8,053
- #45Lift Percy Shurmer£8,025
- #46St Jude's Catholic Primary School£8,019
- #47Kingsland Primary School (NC)£8,012
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