Yenton Primary School

About Yenton Primary School

Yenton Primary School, a state primary in Birmingham for children aged 4 to 11, was rated Good overall by Ofsted in its most recent inspection in January 2024. The inspection report is particularly striking for its early years provision, which was judged Outstanding, while the quality of education, personal development, and behaviour and attitudes all received Good ratings. This represents a consistent performance compared with the school's previous inspection in 2013, which also awarded an overall Good. When it comes to academic outcomes at the end of Key Stage 2, the school's headline figure is that 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That places Yenton 155th out of 292 primary schools in the Birmingham local authority, and in the bottom 50% nationally. The local authority average for this combined measure is 63%, so Yenton sits just a few points below the typical Birmingham primary.

Looking more closely at the individual subjects, the school's strongest result is in writing, where 77% of pupils reached the expected standard, followed by maths at 74% and reading at 72%. At the higher standard, the picture is more mixed: 27% of pupils achieved a higher score in reading, 23% in maths, but only 7% in writing, and just 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects. The average scaled scores for reading and maths were both 104, which is in line with the national average of 100. The school's Progress 8 scores for reading, writing and maths are not available in the data, so it is not possible to say how much value the school adds relative to pupils' starting points. In the Birmingham local authority rankings, Yenton sits at 153 out of 254 schools when measured by the proportion of pupils achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Yenton is a large primary with 582 pupils on roll, very close to its capacity of 600, and it is clearly a popular choice: for the 2025/26 intake, the school received 181 applications for 68 places, making it oversubscribed with a ratio of 2.66 applicants per place. 62 of those offers went to first-preference applicants. The school serves a community with a high level of disadvantage, as 63.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. Facilities include a Forest School, gymnasium, ICT suite, library, playing fields, music rooms and a chapel, and the school offers a broad range of sports including athletics, tennis, gymnastics, netball, cross country and swimming. Clubs on offer include science, art, film, coding and book club. For families with children who have special educational needs, Yenton lists provisions for specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a school that suits families looking for a large, inclusive primary with strong early years provision and a wide range of extracurricular activities, though the academic outcomes are slightly below the local average.

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