Hall Green School

Hall Green School is a secondary academy converter within the West Midlands Academy Trust, inspected in January 2025 in its first routine inspection since the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspectors found the school performing well across education, behaviour, personal development and leadership, with safeguarding arrangements judged effective. Pupils enjoy learning, feel safe and behave well, and the school has high expectations for them. Outcomes are improving, especially for boys, and pupils benefit from an ambitious, diverse curriculum that reflects the school’s changing demographics and supports pupils with SEND, disadvantaged pupils and those who speak English as an additional language. The school’s strengths include a broad curriculum with strong GCSE take-up in popular subjects, effective reading and SEND support, and a wide personal development programme with many clubs and leadership opportunities. Attendance has improved and persistent absence is falling, while staff workload and welfare are considered well by leaders and trustees. The school also has a specially resourced provision for pupils with physical disabilities and uses three registered alternative provisions. Inspectors identified some areas for improvement. Assessment is not consistently applied across the school, especially in key stage 3, meaning some errors and gaps in learning are missed. Delivery of personal development content and behaviour management is sometimes inconsistent with school policy, leading to lost learning for some pupils. In addition, some pupils arrive late to school and lessons, missing essential learning, and the school needs to promote punctuality more consistently.

Strengths

• Pupils enjoy learning, feel safe and behave well with positive attitudes.
• The curriculum is ambitious, diverse and tailored to pupils’ backgrounds and faiths.
• Reading support helps pupils catch up and become fluent, confident readers.
• Pupils with SEND are carefully identified and the curriculum is skilfully adapted for them.
• Effective support is in place for pupils who speak English as an additional language.
• Disadvantaged pupils are supported well through targeted questioning and other strategies.
• Teachers quickly address mistakes, gaps and misconceptions in pupils’ learning.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of academic, sporting and enrichment clubs.
• Personal development provision gives pupils a broad and rich experience beyond lessons.
• Attendance has improved over time and persistent absence is falling.
• Staff workload and welfare are taken into account, with strong trust support.
• Pupils thrive on leadership roles such as year group ambassadors and senior pupil leaders.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment is inconsistent across the school, especially in key stage 3, so some errors and gaps in learning are missed.
• Some staff do not consistently follow the school’s behaviour policy and procedures, leading to lost learning.
• Delivery of personal, social, health and economic content varies between staff.
• Some pupils arrive late to school and to lessons, missing essential learning.
• There is a lack of urgency in moving to lessons on time.

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 Hall Green School attended 91.1% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 31.0% 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, 9.5% of pupils at Hall Green School were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 4 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 Hall Green School had 15.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.0% 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, 12.4% of pupils at Hall Green School were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 3.5% 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 2023–24 Hall Green School received £8,003 and spent £8,065 for each of its 909 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,008,000 (£1,109 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of West Midlands Academy Trust, income was £7,287 and spending £7,280 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Hall Green School is part of West Midlands Academy Trust, which runs 3 schools. The nearest others:

• Swanshurst School Birmingham
• Kings Norton Girls' School Birmingham

What is Hall Green School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hall Green School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Hall Green School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hall Green School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Hall Green School have?

Hall Green School has 903 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hall Green School cover?

Hall Green School for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Hall Green School's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 44.4, and 42% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Hall Green School?

Hall Green School is at Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 0AA.