Turves Green Primary School
General Information
- Address: Northfield, Birmingham, B31 4BP – View on map
- Phone: 01214643686
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Emma Young
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 44 families put it first for 48 places – 9 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. 1 of the 48 places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 8 · 2025 9 · 2026 9
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 221
- % eligible for free school meals: 62.4%
- Pupil mix: 7 in 10 (similar to the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 22% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 23.9% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 47% moved to another school, 53% 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: 8.4%
- Persistently absent pupils: 24.9%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Physical disability 4 places · 1 pupil 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: 12.4%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.8%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 17 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 6 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
- Physical disability: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2020 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 59% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 0% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 6 percentage points below the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 58% against an expected 54%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 58%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 66% · Writing 63% · Maths 63% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 56%
- Average test scores: reading 102, maths 101
- Based on: 59 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 180th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =180Redhill Primary School59%
- =180Tame Valley Academy59%
- =180Turves Green Primary School59%
- =180Wheelers Lane Primary School59%
- =187Grendon Primary School58%
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169th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #167Timberley AcademyGood
- #168Topcliffe Primary SchoolGood
- #169Turves Green Primary SchoolGood
- #170Twickenham Primary SchoolGood
- #171Ward End Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,838 (2024-25)
154th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #152William Murdoch Primary School£6,852
- #153The Rosary Catholic Primary School£6,851
- #154Turves Green Primary School£6,838
- #155Marlborough Primary School£6,820
- #156St Alban's Catholic Primary School£6,815
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