St Paul's School for Girls

St Paul’s School for Girls remains an outstanding institution, continuing to demonstrate high levels of ambition and strong support for its pupils. The school cultivates a welcoming environment where pupils, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds and with SEND, feel safe and valued. With a broad and ambitious curriculum that is effectively sequenced, pupils engage deeply in their learning and consistently achieve high standards. The positive relationships between staff and students foster a culture of respect and tolerance, contributing to pupils' exceptional behaviour both in and out of the classroom.

Strengths

• High expectations and ambition set for all pupils.
• Strong, caring relationships between staff and students.
• Outstanding curriculum that is broad, ambitious, and well-sequenced.
• Teachers possess strong subject knowledge and deliver inspiring lessons.
• Effective assessment feedback that helps pupils improve.
• Robust and effective safeguarding measures.
• High levels of pupil engagement in extracurricular activities.

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 St Paul's School for Girls attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 10.8% 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, 2.8% of pupils at St Paul's School for Girls were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 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 St Paul's School for Girls had 14.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.1% 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, 19.9% of pupils at St Paul's School for Girls were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 1.5% 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 St Paul's School for Girls received £8,062 and spent £8,086 for each of its 1,036 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £209,000 (£202 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 St Paul's School for Girls's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for St Paul's School for Girls is Outstanding, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was St Paul's School for Girls last inspected by Ofsted?

St Paul's School for Girls was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does St Paul's School for Girls have?

St Paul's School for Girls has 1,033 pupils on roll.

What age range does St Paul's School for Girls cover?

St Paul's School for Girls for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are St Paul's School for Girls's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 65.9, and 82% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is St Paul's School for Girls?

St Paul's School for Girls is at Vernon Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B16 9SL.