Rounds Green Primary School

Rounds Green Primary School is performing well overall, with all inspected areas judged good in its first section 5 inspection since becoming an academy in 2022. The school was previously judged to require improvement as a predecessor school, but leaders, staff and trust governance have since established an ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum and a positive school culture. Pupils are enthusiastic, behave well and feel safe, and they benefit from strong reading and phonics provision, effective support for pupils with SEND and those learning English as an additional language, and a wide range of personal development opportunities. The school's strengths include early identification of additional needs, bespoke provision that helps pupils access the curriculum, and a clear focus on ensuring pupils who fall behind in reading gain the knowledge and skills to become fluent readers. Personal development is promoted well through the school's virtues, community involvement, trips, clubs and sport leadership, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. Leadership and governance are also effective, with appropriate training, attention to staff workload and robust challenge from trustees. The main areas for improvement are in assessment and challenge. Checking what pupils have learned is stronger in English and mathematics than in some wider curriculum subjects, so teachers do not always identify gaps consistently. In some lessons, a focus on the minimum lesson objective means pupils are not always challenged to deepen their knowledge or work at greater depth. Published outcomes are affected by high numbers of pupils with SEND, pupils new to English and late mid-year admissions, although results have continued to improve since 2022.

Strengths

• Ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum with high expectations from early years onwards
• Strong early reading and phonics provision with prompt identification and closely matched books
• Effective curriculum adaptations for pupils with SEND and those learning English as an additional language
• Pupils behave well, have positive attitudes to learning and feel safe
• Strong personal development through virtues, community involvement, trips, clubs and sport leadership
• Effective leadership and governance, including staff training, workload consideration and safeguarding
• Pupils achieve well and outcomes have improved since 2022 despite significant contextual challenges

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment of pupils' learning is not consistently well developed across the wider curriculum
• Teachers do not always identify and address gaps in pupils' learning in some subjects
• Some pupils are not consistently challenged to deepen their knowledge or work at greater depth
• Opportunities for pupils to achieve a higher standard or greater depth are sometimes lost

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 Rounds Green Primary School attended 92.6% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 24.6% 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, 1.0% of pupils at Rounds Green 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 Rounds Green Primary School had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 5.6% 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, 18.5% of pupils at Rounds Green Primary School 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 Rounds Green Primary School received £6,960 and spent £7,237 for each of its 371 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £191,000 (£515 per pupil).

Across all 36 schools of The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, income was £7,171 and spending £7,108 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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All schools in Oldbury · Sandwell local authority: places and applications

Rounds Green Primary School is part of The Elliot Foundation Academies Trust, which runs 37 schools. The nearest others:

• Rowley Hall Primary School Rowley Regis
• George Betts Primary Academy Smethwick
• Netherbrook Primary School Dudley
• Shireland Hall Primary Academy Smethwick
• Harborne Primary School Birmingham
• Woods Bank Academy Wednesbury
• Tiverton Academy Birmingham
• Chandos Primary School Birmingham
• Croft Academy Walsall
• Kings Rise Academy Birmingham

What is Rounds Green Primary School's Ofsted rating?

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

When was Rounds Green Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Rounds Green Primary School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Rounds Green Primary School have?

Rounds Green Primary School has 367 pupils on roll.

What age range does Rounds Green Primary School cover?

Rounds Green Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 51% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Rounds Green Primary School?

Rounds Green Primary School is at Brades Road, Oldbury, West Midlands, B69 2DP.