Sacred Heart Catholic School
General Information
- Address: Earlsbury Gardens, Birchfield, Birmingham, B20 3AE – View on map
- Phone: 01213564721
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Natalie Brodie
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 16 families put it first for 18 places – 9 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 9 · 2025 7 · 2026 9
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 94
- % eligible for free school meals: 54.3%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (similar to the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 62% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 37.1% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 49% moved to another school, 51% 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: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 14.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 21.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 17 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card June 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 Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Strong standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Requires improvement (2023). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 58% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 54% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 54%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 79% · Writing 75% · Maths 63% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 75%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 101
- Based on: 24 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 187th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =180Wheelers Lane Primary School59%
- =187Grendon Primary School58%
- =187Sacred Heart Catholic School58%
- =187St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School58%
- =187St Edward's Catholic Primary School58%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,587 (2024-25)
78th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #76St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School£7,610
- #77St Wilfrid's Catholic Junior and Infant School£7,599
- #78Sacred Heart Catholic School£7,587
- #79The Shirestone Academy£7,583
- #80Woodgate Primary School£7,578
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