Anglesey Primary School

About Anglesey Primary School

Anglesey Primary School is a popular choice among Birmingham families, with 180 applications chasing just 69 places in the 2025/26 admissions round. That works out at 2.61 applications per place, and the school is officially oversubscribed. Of those 180 applicants, 67 put Anglesey as their first preference, and all 67 received an offer. The school doesn’t publish a parent recommendation percentage in the data, but the sheer demand suggests a strong local reputation. Headteacher Adrian Pembleton leads a mixed, non-religious state primary for children aged 3 to 11, with nursery provision on site. The school is large, with 697 pupils against a capacity of 782, and a high proportion of pupils — 60.2 per cent — are eligible for free school meals, which is well above the national average. In its most recent Ofsted inspection, carried out in March 2024, the school was rated Good overall, with Good marks across every category: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. That’s a consistent improvement from its previous inspection in 2012, when leadership and management was rated Outstanding but the overall effectiveness was also Good.

Academically, Anglesey’s Key Stage 2 results for the 2023/24 academic year tell a mixed story. Just 30 per cent of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, which is significantly below the Birmingham local authority average of 63 per cent. Only 3 per cent achieved the higher standard in all three subjects. Breaking it down, 70 per cent met the expected standard in reading, 30 per cent in writing, and 81 per cent in maths — so maths is a relative strength. At the higher level, 29 per cent of pupils scored highly in reading, 28 per cent in maths, but just 3 per cent in writing. Average scaled scores were 104 in reading and 105 in maths. Nationally, the school ranks in the bottom 3 per cent of all primary schools for the combined expected standard metric, and in Birmingham it sits at 251st out of 254 primaries. There’s no progress data available, so it’s hard to say how much value the school adds, but the raw attainment figures are notably low compared with local peers like Little Sutton Primary School, which tops the LA rankings.

The school offers a decent range of facilities, including a library, music rooms, art studios, a sports hall, playing fields, an outdoor playground, a dining hall, and even a forest school and chapel. Sports on offer include gymnastics, swimming, netball, football and tennis, and there are clubs for chess, choir, coding, art, drama and science. For children with additional needs, Anglesey provides support across a wide spectrum: moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, physical disability, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties. That breadth of SEND provision is a real asset for families whose children need extra support. The school is oversubscribed, so applying as a first preference is wise. It’s a good fit for families who value a large, inclusive community school with strong pastoral and SEND support, and who are comfortable with attainment levels that are below the local average — particularly if their child benefits from the specialist provisions on offer.

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