Clifton Primary School

About Clifton Primary School

Clifton Primary School sits within the Birmingham local authority, a large and varied primary landscape that includes 292 schools of the same type. In the most recent rankings based on the proportion of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, Clifton placed 152nd out of 254 Birmingham primaries, placing it in the bottom half of the authority. For context, the top-performing local peers include Little Sutton Primary School, Cromwell Junior and Infant School, and Lift Lea Forest, all of which achieved significantly higher ranking scores. Clifton is a large, mixed, non-religious state primary for children aged 3 to 11, with a current roll of 897 pupils against a capacity of 960. The school has a notably high proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals, at 57.3 per cent. Its most recent Ofsted inspection, an ungraded visit in April 2025, confirmed that standards were being maintained, and the school retains its overall Good rating from the previous graded inspection in 2019, when leadership and management, and early years provision, were also judged Good.

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