City Road Primary School

About City Road Primary School

City Road Primary School sits within the Birmingham local authority, a large and varied primary landscape where it ranks 121st out of 254 schools of the same type. That places it in the top half of Birmingham primaries, though some distance behind the local top performers: Little Sutton Primary School, Cromwell Junior and Infant School, and Lift Lea Forest all hold higher ranking scores. The school is rated Good overall by Ofsted following its most recent graded inspection in 2023, a notable improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating in 2017. Under headteacher Shaukat Islam, the school has seen its leadership and management, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and early years provision all judged Good. With 454 pupils on roll against a capacity of 459, the school is close to full, and its nursery provision means children can join from age three.

Academically, City Road’s Key Stage 2 results for 2023/24 show 64% of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined, just above the Birmingham local authority average of 63%. The school’s ranking score of 64 places it in the top 50% nationally, at the 47th percentile. In individual subjects, 73% met the expected standard in reading and writing, and 76% in maths. Higher attainment is less common: 10% reached the higher standard in reading, 19% in maths, and just 5% in writing, with only 3% achieving the higher combined benchmark. Average scaled scores were 103 in reading and 105 in maths. The school does not publish progress scores for these subjects, so it is not possible to compare how much value it adds relative to pupils’ starting points.

The school offers a solid range of facilities including a library, playing fields, sports hall, forest school, outdoor playground and music rooms. Sports on offer include football, netball, cross country, tennis and dance, while clubs extend to eco club, book club, gardening and chess. SEND provision covers moderate learning difficulty, social emotional and mental health needs, speech language and communication needs, hearing impairment, and autistic spectrum disorder. The school was oversubscribed for 2025/26 reception places, with 105 applications for 43 places and 40 first-preference offers, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.44. This suggests strong local demand, and the school would suit families in Birmingham seeking a well-regarded mainstream primary with nursery provision and a broad extracurricular offer, particularly those who value outdoor learning through the forest school programme.

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