Raddlebarn Primary School
General Information
- Address: Gristhorpe Road, Birmingham, B29 7TD – View on map
- Phone: 01214720062
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Michelle Newman
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 22 families put it first for 23 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 8 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 90
- % eligible for free school meals: 23.5%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 21% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 21% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 56% moved to another school, 44% 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: 5.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.3%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 0.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Specific learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 11 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 8 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 7 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 65% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 59% against an expected 58%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 59%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 75% · Maths 78% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 78%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 105
- Based on: 51 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
- =135Highters Heath Community School65%
- =135Kingsland Primary School (NC)65%
- =135Raddlebarn Primary School65%
- =135St Paul's Catholic Primary School65%
- =135The Oval School65%
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108th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #106Park Hill Primary SchoolGood
- #107Quinton Church Primary SchoolGood
- #108Raddlebarn Primary SchoolGood
- #109Redhill Primary SchoolGood
- #110Robin Hood AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,756 (2024-25)
163rd of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #161Firs Primary School£6,786
- #162Hawkesley Church Primary Academy£6,781
- #163Raddlebarn Primary School£6,756
- #164Gilbertstone Primary School£6,755
- #165Highfield Junior and Infant School£6,750
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