Wheelers Lane Primary School
General Information
- Address: Wheelers Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B13 0SF – View on map
- Phone: 01214642551
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Emma Sumner
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 74 families put it first for 77 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 8 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 258
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.8%
- Pupil mix: 8 in 10 (more mixed than the Birmingham average)
- English as an additional language: 31% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 12.5% a year (Birmingham 17.9%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 46% moved to another school, 54% 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: 5.6%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.7%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 14.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 2.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 46 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 23 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 15 pupils
- Physical disability: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Physical disability: 4 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 1 pupil
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: 59% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 6% (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 63% against an expected 62%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 63%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 81% · Writing 64% · Maths 81% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 84%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 106
- Based on: 90 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
- =180Tame Valley Academy59%
- =180Turves Green Primary School59%
- =180Wheelers Lane Primary School59%
- =187Grendon Primary School58%
- =187Sacred Heart Catholic School58%
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177th of 199 primary schools in Birmingham for Ofsted rating
- #175West Heath Primary SchoolGood
- #176Westminster Primary SchoolGood
- #177Wheelers Lane Primary SchoolGood
- #178Whitehouse Common Primary SchoolGood
- #179William Murdoch Primary SchoolGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,541 (2024-25)
183rd of 249 primary schools in Birmingham for spending per pupil
- #181Oasis Academy Boulton£6,562
- #182St Joseph's Catholic Primary School£6,548
- #183Wheelers Lane Primary School£6,541
- #184Hollyfield Primary School£6,525
- #185Four Oaks Primary School£6,506
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