City of Birmingham School
Special / other · Birmingham · B11 4LX
Not yet graded
No graded inspection outcome is available for this school under either the current or the previous framework. This is common for recently opened or converted schools.
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
431 pupils · 98% of 440 capacity
- School type
- Pupil referral unit
- Age range
- 5–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 72.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 7.5% of pupils
- SEN support
- 96.7% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.3% of pupils
- URN
- 103146
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
90% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 10% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 1 October 2024: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 2
- 14 September 2023: Leaders and those responsible for governance are taking effective action in order for the school to become a good school
- 9 March 2022: Requires improvement
- 8 January 2019: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 14 March 2018: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.