Topcliffe Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Birmingham·B35 6BS
Composite score
13.0
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National rank
#1559
In West Midlands
#279
In Birmingham
Top 99%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
20%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
96.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
34 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
115
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.37
00.511.52
1 per place
1.0320220.9620231.3020241.5020251.132026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Topcliffe 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
249
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
72.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
12.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
26.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
28.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
12.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£12,378
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Topcliffe Primary School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Topcliffe Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 249 pupils aged 4 to 11. 20% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 31.0 percentage points compared with 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 99 in reading and 96 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Topcliffe Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 34 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 7.4%. There are about 12.8 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 72% 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. Topcliffe 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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