Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy

Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy is a happy, orderly school where pupils feel safe and are enthusiastic about learning. Inspectors found strong provision across early years, behaviour, personal development and leadership, with high expectations for all pupils and effective safeguarding. The school is part of the Greenheart Learning Partnership and has had a new headteacher since June 2023; this was its first routine inspection since the pandemic. Strengths include a language-rich early years curriculum, effective phonics teaching with quick support for pupils who fall behind, and well-designed support for pupils with SEND. The curriculum is carefully sequenced and outcomes for Year 6 pupils are rising and broadly in line with national averages. Attendance is improving, pupils take part in a wide range of clubs and experiences, and trust and trustee oversight is supportive and appropriately challenging. However, in some subjects pupils remember key facts without gaining a deep understanding of how those facts connect, and in a few subjects prior learning is not revisited often enough. This limits how securely pupils build on earlier learning and remember key knowledge. These are the main areas for improvement.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy, polite and behave well in lessons and around school.
• The school has high expectations for all pupils and does not see barriers to learning.
• The early years curriculum is language-rich and helps close communication and language gaps.
• Phonics teaching is effective, with quick extra support for pupils who fall behind.
• SEND identification and support are comprehensive and help pupils access the same learning as peers.
• The curriculum is carefully sequenced and tailored to meet diverse needs.
• Year 6 outcomes are rising and broadly in line with national averages.
• Attendance is increasing because leaders track absence closely and work with families.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of clubs, trips and responsibilities.
• Trust and trustee oversight provides appropriate support and challenge.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, pupils do not consistently develop a deep understanding of how key facts link together.
• In a few subjects, prior learning is not revisited frequently enough, limiting secure links and recall.

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 Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy attended 91.8% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 24.7% 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, 3.9% of pupils at Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy 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 Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy had 22.9 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 8.0% 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, 30.8% of pupils at Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 6.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 16 pupils.

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 Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy received £8,316 and spent £7,766 for each of its 394 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £788,000 (£1,999 per pupil).

Across all 10 schools of Greenheart Learning Partnership, income was £7,729 and spending £7,430 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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Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy is part of Greenheart Learning Partnership, which runs 10 schools. The nearest others:

• Fairway Primary Academy Birmingham
• The Orchards Primary Academy Birmingham
• Reaside Academy Birmingham
• Woodhouse Primary Academy Birmingham
• Tame Valley Academy Birmingham
• Heathlands Primary Academy Birmingham
• Edgar Stammers Primary Academy Walsall
• Featherstone Academy Wolverhampton
• Pye Green Academy Cannock

What is Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy is Good, from an inspection in February 2025.

When was Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy was last inspected in February 2025.

How many pupils does Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy have?

Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy has 400 pupils on roll.

What age range does Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy cover?

Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 62% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy?

Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy is at Turves Green, Longbridge, Birmingham, West Midlands, B31 4RD.