Nishkam Primary School Birmingham

Free schools·Primary school Birmingham·B21 9SN
Composite score
73.3
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#1,348
National rank
#102
In West Midlands
#19
In Birmingham
Top 9%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
84%
% achieving higher RWM
16%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
111.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
65%
92 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.53
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
170
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
22%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.18
00.511.52
1 per place
1.2020221.5620231.4820241.3520251.532026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Nishkam Primary School Birmingham 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
423
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Sikh

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
27.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.6%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
4.7%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,485
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Nishkam Primary School Birmingham

Nishkam Primary School Birmingham is a primary school in Birmingham, classified by the DfE as a free school with a Sikh religious character. Around 423 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 84% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 6.0 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 among the top 9% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 111 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 16% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 65% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (92 first choices for 60 places). Overall pupil absence was 3.6%. There are about 23.7 pupils per teacher. Nishkam Primary School Birmingham 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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