St Martin de Porres Catholic Primary School
General Information
- Address: Oakland Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 9DN – View on map
- Phone: 01214645500
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Aaron Crehan
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 24 families put it first for 29 places – 8 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 8 · 2025 7 · 2026 8
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Roman Catholic
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 82
- % eligible for free school meals: 40.6%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 17% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.9% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% 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: 6.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 22.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.5%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 22 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 12 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 10 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 2 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 1 pupil
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 Strong 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 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: 61% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 11% (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 60% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 60%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 61% · Writing 79% · Maths 79% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 79%
- Average test scores: reading 103, maths 104
- Based on: 28 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
- =163Reaside Academy61%
- =163Severne Junior Infant and Nursery School61%
- =163St Martin de Porres Catholic Primary School61%
- =163World's End Junior School61%
- =163Yew Tree Community Junior and Infant School (NC)61%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,304 (2024-25)
107th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #105SS John and Monica Catholic Primary School£7,325
- #106Grestone Academy£7,322
- #107St Martin de Porres Catholic Primary School£7,304
- #108Ward End Primary School£7,301
- #109SS Mary & John Catholic Primary School£7,300
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