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Hawkesley Church Primary Academy

Birmingham, B38 9TR · Birmingham · primary school

Ofsted: Good · 2021 Mixed Primary Church of England/Methodist
OfstedGood
Pupils228
FSM68.9%
KS2 expected67%
AI summary of the Ofsted report Inspected 2026-01-13 · Tap to collapse

Generated by AI from the official inspection report — not written by Ofsted or SchoolsGPT staff. Always read the full Ofsted PDF before relying on this summary.

Overview: Hawkesley Church Primary Academy is a school that has been identified as having an exceptional standard, with leaders providing a stable platform for improvement and acting with clear moral purpose. The school has a strong culture of respect, with pupils showing courtesy and patience, and a highly positive culture of care underpinning the school's approach to inclusion.

Strengths:

  • Attendance and behaviour are strong, with leaders having transformed pupils' attendance and built positive relationships with families.
  • Behaviour is a clear strength, with classrooms, corridors and social spaces being calm and purposeful.
  • Early years are strong, with children settling quickly and adults establishing routines from the start and building secure relationships.
  • Personal development and wellbeing are strong, with leaders having designed the personal development offer with care and ensuring that pupils develop the knowledge they need for life beyond school.
  • Inclusion is strong, with a highly positive culture of care underpinning the school's approach to inclusion and well-trained staff knowing pupils well and understanding their needs.

Areas to improve:

  • Leaders should identify precise starting points for all pupils and address gaps in foundational knowledge consistently so that progress accelerates.
  • Leaders should consistently review the learning and progress of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and the impact of teachers' adaptations so that any gaps in their knowledge close swiftly and securely.
  • Leaders should evaluate the strategies they use to identify and act on priorities quickly so that each aspect of the school's work is of consistently high quality.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.

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Catchment / designated area

LA-wide default is distance-based (nearest-school priority), but individual community schools can and do define their own catchment area on top — varies school by school, not a single LA-wide rule.

Source: Birmingham admissions policy

Ofsted judgement breakdown (2021-10-12)

Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes
Early years provision (where applicable)
Good

Ofsted report card (13/01/2026)

Under Ofsted's report-card framework (introduced November 2025), schools no longer receive a single overall grade — each area below is judged separately.

Safeguarding Standards
Met
Inclusion
Expected standard
Curriculum And Teaching
Expected standard
Achievement
Expected standard
Attendance And Behaviour
Strong standard
Personal Development
Strong standard
Early Years
Strong standard
Leadership And Governance
Expected standard

What the entrance test covers

One shared test for all eight Birmingham grammar schools, arranged by the King Edward VI Foundation and provided by GL Assessment: two papers of about an hour each, covering English comprehension, verbal reasoning, mathematics, and non-verbal/spatial reasoning. Answers are multiple-choice and scores are age-standardised. There is no fixed pass mark — after the test, each school sets its own qualifying and priority score thresholds, so the same result can qualify a child for some of the eight schools but not others. Camp Hill schools have historically had the highest cutoffs. Register once (online, via the West Midlands Grammar Schools website, historically by late June of Year 5); the single result is used by every Birmingham grammar school named on your Common Application Form.

Similar schools nearby

Same area, prioritising the same phase — useful for shortlisting alternatives.

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Data sourced from GIAS, Ofsted and official Birmingham admissions publications. Figures can change year to year — always confirm with the school before applying.

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