Longwill A Primary School for Deaf Children
Special / other · Birmingham · B31 1LD
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 8 November 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
53 pupils
- School type
- Foundation special school
- Age range
- 2–12
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 64.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 100% of pupils
- SEN support
- 0% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 100% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.longwill.bham.sch.uk
- URN
- 103603
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
8 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
no data
no data
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
59% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 41% 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
- 8 November 2022: Outstanding
- 28 March 2019: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.