St Peters CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Old Church Road, Harborne, Birmingham, B17 0BE – View on map
- Phone: 01214642128
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Alison Leonard
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 57 families put it first for 60 places – 10 for every 10 places. 96% of them were offered a place. 1 of the 60 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 92
- % eligible for free school meals: 21.4%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 22% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 17.5% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 10% moved to another school, 90% 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: 4.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 20.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 36 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 21 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
- Other difficulty or disability: 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: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 20% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 71% against an expected 66%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 80% · Writing 72% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 90%
- Average test scores: reading 108, maths 108
- Based on: 60 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 78th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =78St Bernard's Catholic Primary School72%
- =78St Margaret Mary RC Junior and Infant School72%
- =78St Peters CofE Primary School72%
- =78Sutton Park Primary72%
- =86Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy71%
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151st of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #149St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #150St Peter and St Paul RC Junior and Infant SchoolGood
- #151St Peters CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #152St Saviour's C of E Primary SchoolGood
- #153St Teresa's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,983 (2024-25)
141st of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #139Heath Mount Primary School£6,994
- #140Birches Green Primary School£6,991
- #141St Peters CofE Primary School£6,983
- #142English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School£6,980
- #143Grove School£6,973
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