Water Mill Primary School
General Information
- Address: Water Mill Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6TS – View on map
- Phone: 01214647769
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Paula Rudd
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 31 families put it first for 30 places – 10 for every 10 places. 94% 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 9 · 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 88
- % eligible for free school meals: 42.9%
- Pupil mix: 9 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 61% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 32.5% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 11% moved to another school, 89% 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. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
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: 6.9%
- Persistently absent pupils: 19.4%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 19.5%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 1.0%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 12 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 10 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Other difficulty or disability: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Moderate learning difficulty: 1 pupil
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card June 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
- Achievement Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Expected standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2022). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 75% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 10 percentage points above the Birmingham average (65%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Well above (3-year average 78% against an expected 51%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 78%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 79% · Writing 88% · Maths 79% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 79%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 106
- Based on: 24 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 53rd of 264 junior and primary schools in the area
- =53Twickenham Primary School75%
- =53Warren Farm Primary School75%
- =53Water Mill Primary School75%
- =53Woodhouse Primary Academy75%
- =64Brownmead Primary Academy74%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £7,696 (2024-25)
69th of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #67Stirchley Primary School£7,705
- #68Billesley Primary School£7,704
- #69Water Mill Primary School£7,696
- #70Yardley Wood Community Primary School£7,679
- #71Wychall Primary School£7,675
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