Nonsuch Primary School
General Information
- Address: Wood Leasow, Woodgate Valley, Birmingham, B32 3SE – View on map
- Phone: 01214642064
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Dr Siobhan Sanders
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 19 families put it first for 19 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 9 · 2024 10 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 114
- % eligible for free school meals: 60.0%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 40% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 23.7% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 86% moved to another school, 14% 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: 6.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 19.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 31.1%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 22 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 19 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 15 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card January 2026
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 Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 52% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 10% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 13 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 60% against an expected 53%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 60%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 65% · Writing 81% · Maths 58% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 48%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 102
- Based on: 31 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 221st of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =216Springfield Primary Academy53%
- =221Kingsthorne Primary School52%
- =221Nonsuch Primary School52%
- =221St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) School52%
- =221St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School52%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,362 (2024-25)
202nd of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #200St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth£6,371
- #201Abbey Catholic Primary School£6,369
- #202Nonsuch Primary School£6,362
- #203The Oval School£6,347
- #204Robin Hood Academy£6,346
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