Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School

Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Seventh Day Adventist religious character. The school educates roughly 169 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 50% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 30.0 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 104 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 4 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 18.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 40% 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. Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist 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.