Sutton Park Primary
General Information
- Address: Coppice View Road, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6UE – View on map
- Phone: 01214647355
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Emily Dunning
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 19 families put it first for 23 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 23 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 9 · 2024 11 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 173
- % eligible for free school meals: 58.4%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (less mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 16% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 25.9% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 50% moved to another school, 50% 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: 6.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 21.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Autism 45 places · 27 pupils at the last count
Places are usually for children with an EHC Plan and are arranged through the council, not the normal school application.
- Pupils on SEN Support: 24.6%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 10.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 26 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 15 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 11 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Physical disability: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 22 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Profound and multiple learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2024 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 72% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 13% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 7 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 48% against an expected 56%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 48%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 72% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 77%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 108
- Based on: 39 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 Margaret Mary RC Junior and Infant School72%
- =78St Peters CofE Primary School72%
- =78Sutton Park Primary72%
- =86Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy71%
- =86Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior71%
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161st of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #159Stirchley Primary SchoolGood
- #160Sundridge Primary SchoolGood
- #161Sutton Park PrimaryGood
- #162Tame Valley AcademyGood
- #163The Oaklands Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £9,162 (2024-25)
11th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #9St Matthew's CofE Primary School£9,320
- #10Sundridge Primary School£9,165
- #11Sutton Park Primary£9,162
- #12Hawthorn Primary School£9,142
- #13St Anne's Catholic Primary School£9,130
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