Marlborough Primary School
General Information
- Address: Marlborough Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 9NY – View on map
- Phone: 01214647933
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Geni Begum
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 49 families put it first for 49 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 9 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 305
- % eligible for free school meals: 54.6%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (similar to the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 53% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 14% 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: 6.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 18.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Autism 22 places · 3 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: 16.9%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 48 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 39 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 35% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 30 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well below (3-year average 40% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 40%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 51% · Writing 56% · Maths 51% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 49%
- Average test scores: reading 100, maths 99
- Based on: 85 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: 258th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =255Yardley Wood Community Primary School37%
- #257Cedars Academy36%
- #258Marlborough Primary School35%
- #259St Wilfrid's Catholic Junior and Infant School34%
- #260Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base32%
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89th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #87Manor Park Primary AcademyGood
- #88Mapledene Primary SchoolGood
- #89Marlborough Primary SchoolGood
- #90Marsh Hill Primary SchoolGood
- #91Maryvale Catholic Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,820 (2024-25)
155th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #153The Rosary Catholic Primary School£6,851
- #154Turves Green Primary School£6,838
- #155Marlborough Primary School£6,820
- #156St Alban's Catholic Primary School£6,815
- #157Conway Primary School£6,805
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