Reaside Academy
General Information
- Address: Tresco Close, Frankley, Birmingham, B45 0HY – View on map
- Phone: 01216757235
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Beverley Walker-Gordon
- Age range: 7-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 135
- % eligible for free school meals: 69.2%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 14% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 31.8% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 60% moved to another school, 40% 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: 8.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 25.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 38.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 25 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 23 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 15 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 10 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
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: 61% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 4 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 52% against an expected 49%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 84% · Writing 71% · Maths 76% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 88%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 107
- Based on: 49 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 163rd of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =163Grestone Academy61%
- =163Nansen Primary School61%
- =163Reaside Academy61%
- =163Severne Junior Infant and Nursery School61%
- =163St Martin de Porres Catholic Primary School61%
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6th of 10 junior schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #4Lyndon Green Junior SchoolGood
- #5Princethorpe Junior SchoolGood
- #6Reaside AcademyGood
- #7Rednal Hill Junior SchoolGood
- #8St Laurence Church Junior SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,320 (2024-25)
5th of 14 junior schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #3World's End Junior School£7,889
- #4Princethorpe Junior School£7,576
- #5Reaside Academy£7,320
- #6Thornton Primary School£7,228
- #7Cedars Academy£7,148
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