Hillstone Primary School

Hillstone Primary School is performing well overall, achieving a 'good' rating across all inspected areas including the quality of education, behaviour, and leadership. Pupils are engaged, happy, and well-behaved, fostering a positive learning environment. The school's commitment to personal development is evident through a variety of extracurricular activities, including sports and the arts, which contribute significantly to students' confidence and experiences. Additionally, leaders maintain high expectations and effectively support pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).

Strengths

• Pupils are lively, friendly, and feel safe at school.
• Leaders provide a wide range of extracurricular opportunities that enhance personal development.
• The curriculum is ambitious and effective for all pupils, including those with SEND.
• Reading is prioritized, and pupils are enthusiastic and successful readers.
• Pupils have opportunities to engage with professional artists and develop their talents.

Areas for Improvement

• Children in the early years lack meaningful opportunities to develop their language in outdoor environments.
• New trustees have not received adequate training to hold leaders accountable effectively.
• There are no established effective assessment systems in some subjects.
• Some pupils are not attending school regularly, affecting their learning.

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 Hillstone Primary School attended 94.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.5% 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, 3.2% of pupils at Hillstone 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 Hillstone Primary School had 21.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 20.0% 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, 13.7% of pupils at Hillstone Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 0.7% 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 Hillstone Primary School received £7,588 and spent £7,126 for each of its 425 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £87,000 (£205 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 Hillstone Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Hillstone Primary School is Good, from an inspection in January 2023.

When was Hillstone Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Hillstone Primary School was last inspected in January 2023.

How many pupils does Hillstone Primary School have?

Hillstone Primary School has 415 pupils on roll.

What age range does Hillstone Primary School cover?

Hillstone Primary School for pupils aged 2 to 11.

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

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Hillstone Primary School?

Hillstone Primary School is at Hillstone Road, Shard End, Birmingham, West Midlands, B34 7PY.