Yardley Wood Community Primary School

Yardley Wood Community Primary School is confirmed to remain a good school, characterized by a warm and supportive environment where pupils feel valued and safe. The curriculum is ambitious and engaging, though the impact on published results is still developing. Pupils benefit from effective teaching and tailored support, resulting in improved learning outcomes. The school actively promotes inclusivity, ensuring that most pupils, including those with special educational needs, make good progress in their learning. However, some gaps remain in pupils’ understanding due to past monitoring issues.

Strengths

• Strong relationships between pupils and staff
• Ambitious and broad curriculum
• Effective phonics teaching with regular practice opportunities
• Diverse extracurricular activities available for pupils
• Positive school culture promoting respect and equality

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent monitoring of pupils' learning
• Some pupils struggle with behavior expectations impacting their learning
• Ongoing issues with attendance among some students

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Yardley Wood Community Primary School attended 92.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 23.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.7% of pupils at Yardley Wood Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). One pupil was permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Yardley Wood Community Primary School had 18.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 20.4% of pupils at Yardley Wood Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.7% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Yardley Wood Community Primary School received £8,127 and spent £8,352 for each of its 442 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £312,000 (£706 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Yardley Wood Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Yardley Wood Community Primary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Yardley Wood Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Yardley Wood Community Primary School was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Yardley Wood Community Primary School have?

Yardley Wood Community Primary School has 442 pupils on roll.

What age range does Yardley Wood Community Primary School cover?

Yardley Wood Community Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Yardley Wood Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 37% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Yardley Wood Community Primary School?

Yardley Wood Community Primary School is at School Road, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, West Midlands, B14 4ER.