West Heath Primary School

Community school·Primary school Birmingham·B38 8HU
Composite score
49.8
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National rank
#744
In West Midlands
#137
In Birmingham
Top 50%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
64%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
96%
52 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
0.87
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
185
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.18
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720221.0220231.1520241.0520250.872026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for West Heath 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
406
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
51.0%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
9.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
20.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
19.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,550
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About West Heath Primary School

West Heath Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 406 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. 64% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 8.0 percentage points year on 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 105 in reading and 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 96% of the families who made West Heath Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 19.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% 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. West Heath 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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