Ward End Primary School
General Information
- Address: Ingleton Road, Birmingham, B8 2RA – View on map
- Phone: 01214645424
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Rachel Chahal
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 84 families put it first for 86 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 442
- % eligible for free school meals: 55.7%
- Pupil mix: 5 in 10 (less mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 47% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 11.8% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 22% moved to another school, 78% 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: 7.8%
- Persistently absent pupils: 25.0%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
- Resourced provision for Autism 18 places · 18 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: 17.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 45 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 41 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 39 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 12 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 6 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 24 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 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: 69% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 4 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 64% against an expected 59%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 64%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 83% · Writing 76% · Maths 87% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 86%
- Average test scores: reading 107, maths 106
- Based on: 119 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 100th of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =100Regents Park Community Primary School69%
- =100Stanville Primary School69%
- =100Ward End Primary School69%
- =109Adderley Primary School68%
- =109Clifton Primary School68%
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171st of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #169Turves Green Primary SchoolGood
- #170Twickenham Primary SchoolGood
- #171Ward End Primary SchoolGood
- #172Warren Farm Primary SchoolGood
- #173Welford Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,301 (2024-25)
108th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #106Grestone Academy£7,322
- #107St Martin de Porres Catholic Primary School£7,304
- #108Ward End Primary School£7,301
- #109SS Mary & John Catholic Primary School£7,300
- #110St Peter's Catholic Primary School£7,300
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