Turves Green Boys' School

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Birmingham·B31 4BS
Composite score
46.6
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#2,834
National rank
#337
In West Midlands
#76
In Birmingham
Top 89%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
37.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
40%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
55%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
3.40

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
125 first choices, 146 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
376
any preference, for 146 places
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Turves Green Boys' 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
11–18
Pupils on roll
538
Gender
Boys
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
59.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
16.0%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.9%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.0%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
31.4%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
12.2
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,279
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
88%
114 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
80%
Apprenticeship
6%
Employment
2%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Turves Green Boys' School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Turves Green Boys' School is a boys' secondary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 538 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 37.3 — below the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 6.2 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 secondary schools nationally.

40% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 55% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Turves Green Boys' School their first choice was offered one of its 146 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 88% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 10.2%. There are about 12.2 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 59% 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. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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