Coleshill Heath School

Academy converter·Primary school Birmingham, Solihull·B37 7PY
Composite score
47.1
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#8,372
National rank
#882
In West Midlands
#40
In Solihull
Top 57%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
67%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
40 first choices, 41 places
First choices per place
0.98
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
87
any preference, for 41 places
Applications from another council area
9%

Every child who put Coleshill Heath 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
2–11
Pupils on roll
546
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
64.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
6.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Staffing & funding

Spend per pupil
£3,126
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Coleshill Heath School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Solihull, Coleshill Heath School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 546 pupils aged 2 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 67% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 2.0 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 106 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Coleshill Heath School their first choice was offered one of its 41 Reception places. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 65% 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. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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