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URN 144650 · LAESTAB 885/2014 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).

Against West Midlands and Worcestershire

Track: West Midlands's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = West Midlands median; W = Worcestershire median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.

West Midlands state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).

Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the West Midlands median, red = in West Midlands's worst 10%.

Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.

Results

England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.

Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).

Against West Midlands: West Midlands state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against West Midlands (10 = top 10%).

Pupils counted: 26 pupils (2024/25), every measure.

KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.

Getting in

Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.

First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.

Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.

You: the straight line from the centre of Birchen Coppice (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.

Inspections

Requires improvementInadequateRequires improvement or belowUngraded visit, no grade

Dates are the day each inspection started: Nov 2024 Areas graded, lowest Requires improvement · May 2024 Ungraded visit · Jul 2023 Ungraded visit · May 2022 Inadequate · May 2017 Ungraded visit · Jul 2016 Inadequate · Jan 2014 Requires improvement · Sep 2012 Requires improvement. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.

Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.

Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.

Pupils

Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (210 places), from Get Information about Schools.

Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.

Workforce

School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 11.59, leadership 2, teaching assistants 9.43, support staff incl. TAs 14.34, whole workforce 25.93 (34 people), 12 teachers by headcount.

Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.

Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.

• DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
• DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
• Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads

Financials

Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.

Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.

CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.

Why some figures are missing

Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).

All sources and licences (6)

• Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
• Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
• Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
• Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
• Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
• Department for Education, Get Information about Schools

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