Glenmead Primary School

Glenmead Primary School is a caring, inclusive school that has recently undergone significant leadership change, with a new headteacher appointed in November 2025. Safeguarding standards are met, and pupils feel safe, happy and valued. Inspectors found particular strengths in the early years, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing: children settle quickly and learn phonics well, leaders and governors are committed and have a clear vision, staff morale is high, and pupils benefit from strong pastoral care, positive behaviour and a wide enrichment offer.

Strengths

• Safeguarding standards are met, with an open culture where concerns are actively identified and managed.
• Children settle quickly into early years and develop positive relationships in a caring, safe environment.
• The early years curriculum is well designed and helps children build knowledge and skills over time.
• Reading is promoted well, and phonics is taught consistently and effectively from the start of Reception.
• The school is inclusive, and leaders have accurate oversight of disadvantaged pupils, pupils with SEND and other key groups.
• Leaders and governors are committed, knowledgeable and clear about the school's priorities and vision.
• Staff morale is high, and leaders are mindful of workload and staff wellbeing.
• Personal development and wellbeing are well planned, helping pupils understand relationships, safety, diversity and British values.
• Pupils behave positively, are polite and respectful, and report that bullying is rare.
• A broad range of enrichment opportunities, including clubs, residential visits and community events, broadens pupils' horizons.
• Pupils with SEND typically make suitable progress from their individual starting points and value the support they receive.
• National test outcomes improved last year, particularly in reading and mathematics.

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not secure foundational knowledge, especially in writing.
• Pupils' handwriting, spelling and grammar are variable, and errors are not consistently addressed.
• Some pupils find it difficult to remember prior learning, leaving gaps that slow progress.
• Published key stage 2 results over three years are below national averages in writing and mathematics.
• The reading and writing curriculums are not yet coherently sequenced or fully embedded.
• Adaptations for pupils with SEND are not consistently precise or effectively applied across classes and subjects.
• Attendance is not high enough, and persistent absenteeism remains too high.
• The pupil premium grant has a less evident impact on improving attendance.
• Some pupils are not as well prepared for the next stage of their education as they could be.

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 Glenmead Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 13.2% 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, 2.7% of pupils at Glenmead Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No 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 Glenmead Primary School had 21.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.1% 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, 13.7% of pupils at Glenmead Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.6% 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 Glenmead Primary School received £7,483 and spent £7,928 for each of its 263 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £198,000 (£751 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 Glenmead Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Glenmead Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Glenmead Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Glenmead Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Glenmead Primary School have?

Glenmead Primary School has 263 pupils on roll.

What age range does Glenmead Primary School cover?

Glenmead Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Glenmead Primary School?

Glenmead Primary School is at Glenmead Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8UQ.