Bartley Green School

About Bartley Green School

Bartley Green School is a mixed secondary in Birmingham that clearly commands strong local demand. For the 2025/26 intake, the school received 682 applications for 182 places, giving an oversubscription ratio of 3.75 to one. Of those applications, 165 were first-preference choices, and 146 of those families received offers. That level of competition suggests a school that local parents actively want, even if official parent-view survey data isn't available in this dataset. The school is led by headteacher Jane Chan and educates 928 pupils aged 11 to 16, with no sixth form. It's a state-funded, non-religious school with a high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 56.1 per cent, well above the national average, which gives useful context for its academic results.

Academically, the school's most recent Ofsted inspection in 2023 rated it Good overall, with Good in every category including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. That's a step down from its previous Outstanding rating in 2013, but still a solid outcome. On Progress 8, the school scored -0.46, which is below average nationally and ranks it 72nd out of 83 schools in Birmingham. The local authority average Progress 8 score is 0.09, so Bartley Green sits significantly below that. Attainment 8 sits at 38.2, and just 32.1 per cent of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths. The EBacc average point score is 3.31, with 40 per cent of pupils entering the EBacc combination of subjects. These results place the school in the bottom 50 nationally by Progress 8.

The school offers a broad range of facilities including a theatre, library, tennis courts, gymnasium, music rooms, playing fields, art studios, and a sixth form centre (though the school itself doesn't run a sixth form). Sports provision is extensive, covering tennis, swimming, cricket, gymnastics, basketball, athletics, rugby, hockey, rowing, and cross country. Clubs include debate, gardening, newspaper, orchestra, Young Enterprise, choir, and chess. SEND provision is well-developed, with support for specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, hearing impairment, physical disability, autistic spectrum disorder, and a resourced provision. This is a school that suits families who value a strong community feel and broad extracurricular offer, and who are comfortable with academic results that sit below the local average.

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