Al-Furqan Primary School

Voluntary controlled school·Primary school Birmingham·B11 3EY
Composite score
69.4
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#1,853
National rank
#155
In West Midlands
#33
In Birmingham
Top 12%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
78%
% achieving higher RWM
16%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
68%
108 first choices, 90 places
First choices per place
1.20
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
422
any preference, for 90 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.10
00.511.52
1 per place
1.2920221.2720231.3720241.3020251.202026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Al-Furqan Primary School yet. Birmingham does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
631
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Muslim

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
50.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
78.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.0%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,322
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Al-Furqan Primary School

Al-Furqan Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Muslim religious character. Around 631 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 78% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 1.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 12% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 16% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Al-Furqan Primary School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 108 first choices for 90 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.6%. There are about 18.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 50% 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. Al-Furqan Primary 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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