Woodgate Primary School

Woodgate Primary School is a welcoming, inclusive primary where pupils feel safe and well cared for. Inspectors found the school continues to provide a good quality of education, with good behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This was its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic, and under the current framework no overall effectiveness grade was awarded. The school's strong community ethos, practical support for families, and full inclusion of pupils with SEND are notable strengths. Pupils achieve well in reading, writing and mathematics, where the curriculum has been successfully redefined and staff generally teach with strong subject knowledge. Phonics and early reading are particularly effective, and pupils with SEND learn well. Behaviour is calm and courteous, personal development is broad, and attendance is improving. Safeguarding is effective. However, practice is not consistently strong across all subjects. In some subjects, staff do not routinely check pupils' understanding before moving on, which creates gaps and holds pupils back. Leaders are also not always rigorous enough in monitoring the impact of the curriculum in these subjects, so they are not always clear about the most urgent priorities. These are the main areas for improvement.

Strengths

• Strong sense of community and belonging, with families well supported through practical help such as clothing and food provisions.
• Pupils feel safe, are warmly greeted, and trust staff to look out for them.
• Pupils with SEND are fully included and learn well across the curriculum.
• Reading and phonics teaching has improved, with skilled staff and strong support for pupils who struggle.
• Teachers have strong subject knowledge and pupils approach learning enthusiastically.
• Mathematics teaching is particularly effective, with quick correction of misconceptions.
• Early years provision develops essential language skills well through learning and play.
• Behaviour is good; pupils are courteous and classrooms have a calm, purposeful ethos.
• Personal development is broad, including cultural days, sports, theatre, visits and careers learning.
• Attendance is improving through motivating strategies such as the HERO scheme.
• Governors actively support sustained improvement.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, staff do not routinely check that pupils have understood before moving on, causing gaps in learning.
• Leaders are not rigorous enough in monitoring the effectiveness of some subjects, so urgent priorities and refinements are not always clear.
• Progress and curriculum impact are less well developed in subjects beyond reading, writing and mathematics.

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 Woodgate Primary School attended 93.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.4% 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, 2.5% of pupils at Woodgate Primary School 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 Woodgate Primary School had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.0% 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, 18.5% of pupils at Woodgate Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.5% 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 Woodgate Primary School received £9,419 and spent £9,296 for each of its 401 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £561,000 (£1,400 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 Woodgate Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Woodgate Primary School is Good, from an inspection in November 2024.

When was Woodgate Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Woodgate Primary School was last inspected in November 2024.

How many pupils does Woodgate Primary School have?

Woodgate Primary School has 401 pupils on roll.

What age range does Woodgate Primary School cover?

Woodgate Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Woodgate Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

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

Where is Woodgate Primary School?

Woodgate Primary School is at Lutley Grove, Bartley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B32 3PN.