Grove School

Community school·Primary school Birmingham·B21 9HB
Composite score
36.8
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#11,938
National rank
#1285
In West Midlands
#240
In Birmingham
Top 81%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
53%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
57 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
0.95
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
128
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.9320230.9820240.9720250.952026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Grove School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
637
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
56.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
61.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
22.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,973
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Grove School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Grove School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 637 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 53% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 9.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Grove School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 57 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.2%. There are about 20.8 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 56% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Grove School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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