City Road Primary School

City Road Primary School has demonstrated a solid overall effectiveness, achieving a good rating across all inspected areas including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Pupils are enthusiastic about their education and the school fosters a welcoming community atmosphere, marked by strong relationships among staff and students. Noteworthy initiatives such as a breakfast club and a variety of extracurricular activities are enhancing the learning environment and community involvement.

Strengths

• Pupils show high levels of enthusiasm for learning.
• Strong community atmosphere with pupils and staff caring for each other.
• Effective teaching staff who adapt lessons for pupils with special educational needs.
• Focus on ensuring all pupils develop reading skills through daily phonics teaching.
• Good partnerships with parents and local community.

Areas for Improvement

• Teachers do not always check if pupils are ready to move on to new learning.
• Some pupils' attendance rates are low, affecting their learning opportunities.
• Leaders need to plan more strategically for achieving desired outcomes.

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 City Road Primary School attended 92.5% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 27.6% 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, 0.7% of pupils at City Road 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 City Road Primary School had 20.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.6% 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, 22.6% of pupils at City Road Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.3% 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 City Road Primary School received £7,611 and spent £6,573 for each of its 444 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £180,000 (£405 per pupil).

Across all 2 schools of Inspire Education Community Trust, income was £7,908 and spending £7,337 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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City Road Primary School is part of Inspire Education Community Trust, which runs 2 schools. The nearest others:

• Yew Tree Community Junior and Infant School (NC) Birmingham

What is City Road Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for City Road Primary School is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was City Road Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

City Road Primary School was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does City Road Primary School have?

City Road Primary School has 456 pupils on roll.

What age range does City Road Primary School cover?

City Road Primary School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

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

In 2025, 69% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is City Road Primary School?

City Road Primary School is at City Road, Birmingham, B16 0HL.