Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy

Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy continues to perform well as a good school, creating a supportive and caring environment where pupils feel happy and valued. Leaders have designed a broad and ambitious curriculum that promotes not only academic skills but also personal development, leading to positive relationships and good behavior among pupils. The school has a strong focus on reading, with effective phonics instruction in place, ensuring that all pupils have the opportunity to become confident readers. However, there are concerns regarding the early identification and support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), which has impacted their learning experience.

Strengths

• Pupils feel happy and valued at the school.
• There is a strong focus on reading and phonics instruction.
• Leaders have implemented a broad and ambitious curriculum.
• Pupils behave very well and demonstrate good manners.
• The school promotes personal development effectively through various activities.

Areas for Improvement

• Systems for early identification of SEND support have not been rigorous enough.

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 Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy attended 94.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 14.0% 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, 0.4% of pupils at Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy 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 Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy had 21.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 10.2% 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, 11.6% of pupils at Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 2.5% 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 2024–25 Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy received £6,595 and spent £6,172 for each of its 442 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £823,000 (£1,862 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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What is Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy is Good, from an inspection in May 2023.

When was Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy was last inspected in May 2023.

How many pupils does Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy have?

Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy has 441 pupils on roll.

What age range does Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy cover?

Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 71% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy?

Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy is at Aldridge Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, West Midlands, B44 8NT.