King George V Primary School

King George V Primary School is a caring and inclusive environment where pupils feel safe and valued. The school has faced challenges due to high staff turnover and leadership changes, which have impacted the consistency of education quality. Despite these challenges, there has been an upward trend in the school's expectations for pupil achievement, particularly with recent curriculum changes aimed at enhancing learning experiences. However, gaps in knowledge persist, primarily due to the early implementation stage of these changes.

Strengths

• Strong personal development support for pupils
• Caring and inclusive school ethos
• Well-structured phonics program with high achievement rates
• Effective development of pupils' spoken language
• Ambitious and effective early years curriculum
• Good support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)
• Impressive personal development program addressing equality and diversity

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistencies in curriculum delivery across some subjects
• Weaknesses in writing curriculum implementation
• Reading curriculum beyond phonics is not fully developed, affecting comprehension and fluency

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 King George V Primary School attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 17.8% 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, 1.3% of pupils at King George V 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 King George V Primary School had 20.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.4% 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, 10.9% of pupils at King George V Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.2% 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 King George V Primary School received £7,998 and spent £8,067 for each of its 216 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £345,000 (£1,600 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 King George V Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for King George V Primary School is Good, from an inspection in December 2024.

When was King George V Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

King George V Primary School was last inspected in December 2024.

How many pupils does King George V Primary School have?

King George V Primary School has 230 pupils on roll.

What age range does King George V Primary School cover?

King George V Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are King George V Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 70% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is King George V Primary School?

King George V Primary School is at Beeches Road, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B70 6JA.