Kings Heath Secondary School

Kings Heath Boys is performing well overall, maintaining a good quality of education and positive behaviour among pupils. The school has developed a broad and ambitious curriculum that motivates students and enables them to achieve. Notably, teachers are well-supported and increasingly skilled, leading to good progress for most students, including those who are disadvantaged. Pupils feel safe, are generally well-behaved, and have access to various extracurricular activities that enhance their personal development. However, there are instances where support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) could be improved, particularly in adapting tasks to meet their individual requirements.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, considerate, and well-behaved.
• Teachers use strong subject knowledge to deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum.
• Leaders prioritize professional development for teachers.
• Pupils receive excellent support for early reading stages.
• Strong safeguarding practices are in place.
• The school has received an award for its trauma-informed approach to emotional well-being.

Areas for Improvement

• Some tasks for pupils with SEND are not well adapted to their needs.
• A few subjects do not deliver every aspect of the key stage 3 national curriculum.

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 Kings Heath Secondary School attended 91.7% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 28.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

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, 7.0% of pupils at Kings Heath Secondary School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). One pupil was 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 Kings Heath Secondary School had 15.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

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, 16.2% of pupils at Kings Heath Secondary School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.3% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

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 secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Kings Heath Secondary School received £9,705 and spent £9,522 for each of its 802 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £694,000 (£865 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 Kings Heath Secondary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Kings Heath Secondary School is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Kings Heath Secondary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Kings Heath Secondary School was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Kings Heath Secondary School have?

Kings Heath Secondary School has 794 pupils on roll.

What age range does Kings Heath Secondary School cover?

Kings Heath Secondary School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Kings Heath Secondary School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 46.0, and 50% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Kings Heath Secondary School?

Kings Heath Secondary School is at Chamberlain Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 0QP.