Harborne Primary School

Community school·Primary school Birmingham·B17 9LU
Composite score
48.4
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#7,885
National rank
#807
In West Midlands
#150
In Birmingham
Top 53%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
69%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding effective?
No
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
83 first choices, 96 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
271
any preference, for 96 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.23
00.511.52
1 per place
1.1220221.2620231.3820241.0920250.862026

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

Every child who put Harborne Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
836
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
34.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.5%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
26.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,487
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Harborne Primary School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Harborne Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 836 pupils aged 4 to 11. 69% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 8.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 108 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Harborne Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 96 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 26.2 pupils per teacher. Harborne 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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