St George's Church of England Academy, Newtown
General Information
- Address: St George's Street, Birmingham, B19 3QY – View on map
- Phone: 01218182139
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Ruth Williams
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 188
- % eligible for free school meals: 75.2%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (similar to the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 74% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 36.2% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 71% moved to another school, 29% 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: 5.0%
- Persistently absent pupils: 14.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 10.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Moderate learning difficulty: 9 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 1 pupil
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
No overall grade given 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 40% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 25 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 44% against an expected 55%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 44%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 46% · Maths 80% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 94%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 105
- Based on: 35 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 252nd of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =250Summerfield Primary School41%
- =252Court Farm Primary School40%
- =252St George's Church of England Academy, Newtown40%
- #254St Clement's Church of England Academy38%
- =255Woodgate Primary School37%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,073 (2024-25)
131st of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #129Tame Valley Academy£7,087
- #130Leigh Primary School£7,084
- #131St George's Church of England Academy, Newtown£7,073
- #132Brownmead Primary Academy£7,060
- #133Ark Tindal Primary Academy£7,033
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