Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base

Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base has been identified as a good-performing school. The school fosters a welcoming community atmosphere where positive relationships between the school, pupils, and parents are emphasized. It provides a high level of pastoral support, ensuring students feel safe and content. The school maintains high aspirations for all its pupils, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), allowing many to achieve commendable progress despite challenges like a high number of students who join mid-year or speak English as an additional language. Although the overall quality of education is recognized as good, some published data reveals that key stage 2 performance falls below national expectations. Current teaching practices, especially in phonics, mathematics, and writing, show improvement, helping students make significant progress from their individual starting points. However, there are concerns regarding how some curriculum activities might not effectively support deep understanding, and the school is encouraged to enhance the analysis of behavior data to better address any emerging trends.

Strengths

• Strong community relationships among school, pupils, and parents.
• High levels of pastoral support for students.
• Good progress in early reading thanks to an effective phonics program.
• Positive classroom behavior and attitudes towards learning.
• Inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and promotes respect.
• High-quality emotional support for pupils.
• Variety of enriching trips and experiences to enhance the curriculum.

Areas for Improvement

• Some activities do not ensure pupils gain a deep understanding in all subjects.
• Insufficient analysis of behavior incident data to identify patterns or trends.

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 Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base attended 93.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.6% 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, 1.7% of pupils at Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 2 pupils were 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 Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base had 17.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 31.9% 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, 15.6% of pupils at Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 10 pupils.

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 Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base received £10,929 and spent £10,822 for each of its 202 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £47,000 (£233 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 Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base is Good, from an inspection in May 2024.

When was Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base last inspected by Ofsted?

Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base was last inspected in May 2024.

How many pupils does Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base have?

Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base has 212 pupils on roll.

What age range does Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base cover?

Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 32% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base?

Welsh House Farm Community School and Special Needs Resources Base is at Welsh House Farm Road, Quinton, Birmingham, West Midlands, B32 2NG.