Firs Primary School
Primary · Birmingham · B36 8LL
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 February 2026 · report published 7 June 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
279 pupils · 66% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 3–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 74.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 67.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 18% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 1.5% of pupils
- Website
- www.firs.academy
- URN
- 143089
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.96 first-choice applications per place28 places offered · 27 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
58 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
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)
52% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 23% moved to another state school · 24% 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, academy 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
- 10 February 2026: Needs attention
- 6 November 2024: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
- 1 October 2019: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.