Calshot Primary School

Calshot Primary School continues to demonstrate a good standard of education, maintaining high expectations among staff, pupils, and parents. The school has established an ambitious curriculum that teachers deliver effectively, ensuring pupils are engaged and have a positive learning attitude. Pupils display good behavior, feel safe, and participate actively in school life, taking on various responsibilities that contribute to their development as citizens. However, the school faces challenges with the continuity of learning from the early years to key stage 1 in some subjects, which needs to be addressed to enhance the educational experience further.

Strengths

• Leaders promote high expectations across all aspects of school life.
• Pupils display positive attitudes towards learning and work hard in lessons.
• The ambitious curriculum is effectively understood and delivered by teachers.
• Pupils remember their learning well and show pride in their achievements.
• The school prioritizes the development of a love for reading among pupils.
• Strong support is provided for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils are well-behaved and show respect to their peers and staff.
• Staff feel supported by approachable leaders and value collaboration.

Areas for Improvement

• The progression of learning from early years to key stage 1 is not clearly articulated in some subjects.
• Not enough opportunities for early readers to practice and apply their reading skills effectively.

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 Calshot Primary School attended 93.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 18.0% 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, 0.0% of pupils at Calshot 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 Calshot Primary School had 19.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 11.5% of pupils at Calshot Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.1% 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 Calshot Primary School received £8,598 and spent £8,348 for each of its 424 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £250,000 (£591 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 Calshot Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Calshot Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Calshot Primary School was last inspected in April 2023.

How many pupils does Calshot Primary School have?

Calshot Primary School has 436 pupils on roll.

What age range does Calshot Primary School cover?

Calshot Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Calshot Primary School?

Calshot Primary School is at Calshot Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, West Midlands, B42 2BY.