Wheelers Lane Primary School

Wheelers Lane Primary School is recognized as a good school, providing a warm and welcoming environment for its students. The leadership has established a rigorous curriculum that emphasizes essential knowledge, enabling pupils to achieve well, particularly in key stage 2. With an extensive range of additional opportunities available, students are engaged and appreciate the rich experiences offered. However, there are concerns regarding the support provided for older pupils who are struggling with reading, necessitating urgent action to help them improve their fluency. Furthermore, assessment practices in foundation subjects need refinement to ensure that gaps in pupils’ understanding are clearly identified and addressed.

Strengths

• Ambitious and well-structured curriculum focused on key knowledge.
• Effective reading schemes ensuring rapid progression for most pupils.
• Strong emphasis on a broad range of extracurricular opportunities.
• Positive and calm school environment with clear behavioral expectations.
• Collaborative work with families to enhance attendance.

Areas for Improvement

• Insufficient support for some older pupils not reading fluently.
• Less precise assessments in foundation subjects making it harder to identify knowledge gaps.

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 Wheelers Lane Primary School attended 94.4% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.7% 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, 0.9% of pupils at Wheelers Lane Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 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 Wheelers Lane Primary School had 20.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 3.4% 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, 14.8% of pupils at Wheelers Lane Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.3% 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 Wheelers Lane Primary School received £7,022 and spent £7,037 for each of its 637 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £459,000 (£721 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 Wheelers Lane Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Wheelers Lane Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2024.

When was Wheelers Lane Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Wheelers Lane Primary School was last inspected in January 2024.

How many pupils does Wheelers Lane Primary School have?

Wheelers Lane Primary School has 656 pupils on roll.

What age range does Wheelers Lane Primary School cover?

Wheelers Lane Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 59% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Wheelers Lane Primary School?

Wheelers Lane Primary School is at Wheelers Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 0SF.