Story Wood School

Academy converter·Primary school Birmingham·B23 5AJ
Composite score
61.6
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#3,503
National rank
#319
In West Midlands
#61
In Birmingham
Top 24%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
75%
% achieving higher RWM
11%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
85%
34 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.13
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
96
any preference, for 30 places

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Story Wood 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
231
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
52.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
23.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
13.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.7
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,803
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Story Wood School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Story Wood School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 231 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 75% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That is down 12.0 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 top 24% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 11% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 85% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (34 first choices for 30 places). There are about 17.7 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 53% 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. Story Wood 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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