Featherstone Primary School

Featherstone Primary School demonstrates a strong performance overall, achieving a 'Good' rating in several categories including quality of education, leadership, management, and early years provision. The school is noted for its outstanding behavior and attitudes, with pupils exhibiting exceptional politeness and resilience. The inclusive environment fostered by staff contributes positively to pupils' sense of safety and belonging, enabling them to thrive both academically and personally. However, there are inconsistencies in subject outcomes, with some areas not achieving the same high standards as reading, writing, and mathematics. Leaders are aware of these issues and are implementing measures to enhance teaching quality across all subjects.

Strengths

• Pupils display exceptional behavior and manners.
• Strong relationships between staff and pupils enhance the school environment.
• High levels of resilience and determination among pupils.
• Ambitious and well-structured curriculum established by leaders.
• Good subject knowledge demonstrated by teachers in most subjects.
• Strong progress in reading and mathematics.
• Effective early years provision that identifies children's learning needs promptly.
• Wide range of high-quality extracurricular activities offered.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects do not have consistently high outcomes.
• Teachers have less secure subject knowledge in a few subjects.
• Not all lessons build effectively on prior learning.

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 Featherstone Primary School attended 95.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.3% 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, 1.9% of pupils at Featherstone Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 3 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 Featherstone Primary School had 22.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.0% 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, 20.0% of pupils at Featherstone Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.1% 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 Featherstone Primary School received £6,952 and spent £7,348 for each of its 416 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £460,000 (£1,106 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 Featherstone Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Featherstone Primary School is Good, from an inspection in February 2023.

When was Featherstone Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Featherstone Primary School was last inspected in February 2023.

How many pupils does Featherstone Primary School have?

Featherstone Primary School has 416 pupils on roll.

What age range does Featherstone Primary School cover?

Featherstone Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 64% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Featherstone Primary School?

Featherstone Primary School is at Glenville Drive, Birmingham, West Midlands, B23 6PR.