Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree
General Information
- Address: Wherretts Well Lane, Solihull, B91 2SD – View on map
- Phone: 01217042067
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Catherine O' Donoghue
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 32 families put it first for 29 places – 11 for every 10 places. 88% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 11 · 2024 13 · 2025 10 · 2026 11
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 51
- % eligible for free school meals: 20.9%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (more mixed than the Solihull average)
- English as an additional language: 29% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 19.8% a year (Solihull 14.8%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 8% moved to another school, 92% 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 Solihull: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.2 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 Solihull, 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: 4.5%
- Persistently absent pupils: 8.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 9.0%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 8 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Vision impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Specific 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: 80% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 20% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 11 percentage points above the Solihull average (69%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 66% against an expected 65%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 66%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 97% · Writing 83% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 93%
- Average test scores: reading 111, maths 108
- Based on: 30 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 6th of 45 junior and primary schools in the area
- #4Monkspath Junior and Infant School83%
- #5Smith's Wood Primary Academy82%
- =6Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree80%
- =6Widney Junior School80%
- #8Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School79%
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29th of 33 primary schools in Solihull for Ofsted rating
- #27Tudor Grange Primary Academy Hockley HeathGood
- #28Tudor Grange Primary Academy LangleyGood
- #29Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew TreeGood
- #30Ulverley SchoolGood
- #31Valley PrimaryGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,847 (2024-25)
17th of 42 primary schools in Solihull for spending per pupil
- #15Monkspath Junior and Infant School£6,979
- #16St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary School£6,924
- #17Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree£6,847
- #18Greswold Primary School£6,608
- #19St Anthony's Catholic Primary School£6,594
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