Tameside Primary Academy
General Information
- Address: Price Road, Wednesbury, WS10 0EZ – View on map
- Phone: 01215560340
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Cem Yalluri
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 33 families put it first for 36 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 3 of the 36 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 189
- % eligible for free school meals: 53.5%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (similar to the Sandwell average)
- English as an additional language: 25% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.2% a year (Sandwell 14%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 33% moved to another school, 67% 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 Sandwell: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (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 Sandwell, 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: 7.2%
- Persistently absent pupils: 25.2%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.9%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 27 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 14 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 8 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
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: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 17% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points above the Sandwell average (61%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 71% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 71%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 95% · Writing 77% · Maths 85% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 95%
- Average test scores: reading 109, 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 11th of 84 junior and primary schools in the area
- =9Ryders Green Primary School77%
- =11Shireland Technology Primary75%
- =11Tameside Primary Academy75%
- =13Abbey Junior School74%
- =13Whitecrest Primary School74%
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46th of 54 primary schools in Sandwell for Ofsted rating
- #44St Pauls Church of England AcademyGood
- #45St Philip's Catholic Primary SchoolGood
- #46Tameside Primary AcademyGood
- #47Temple Meadow Primary SchoolGood
- #48Timbertree AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,196 (2024-25)
28th of 71 primary schools in Sandwell for spending per pupil
- #26Joseph Turner Primary School£7,246
- #27Old Hill Primary School£7,227
- #28Tameside Primary Academy£7,196
- #29Jubilee Park Academy£7,180
- #30Hall Green Primary School£7,172
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