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Lift Four Dwellings Primary

Birmingham, B32 1PJ · Birmingham · primary school

Ofsted: Good · 2023 Mixed Primary
OfstedGood
Pupils341
FSM63.1%
KS2 expected78%
AI summary of the Ofsted report Inspected 2024-01-19 · 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: Four Dwellings Primary Academy is a good school where pupils are happy, behave well, and make good progress. The school provides a wide range of enrichment activities and opportunities for pupils to develop their skills and talents.

Strengths:

  • Pupils are happy and feel confident to talk about any issues or their hopes and wishes.
  • Pupils behave very well in lessons and at breaktimes.
  • The school provides a wide range of enrichment activities for pupils, including clubs and after-school opportunities.
  • Pupils take pride in their work and present it beautifully.
  • The school has high expectations of all pupils, who do well in school.

Areas to improve:

  • In some foundation subjects, the work given to pupils does not consistently enable them to achieve the aims of the curriculum, meaning that pupils do not always secure a depth of knowledge and understanding across all topics.

Safeguarding: The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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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 (2023-11-29)

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

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.

Quinton Church Primary School 0.5 mi · Primary · Good Birmingham, B32 1AJ Howley Grange Primary School 0.6 mi · Primary · Good Halesowen, B62 0HS World's End Junior School 0.6 mi · Primary · Good Birmingham, B32 2SA World's End Infant and Nursery School 0.6 mi · Primary · Good Birmingham, B32 2SA Nonsuch Primary School 0.8 mi · Primary · Good Birmingham, B32 3SE Perryfields Primary School 0.8 mi · Primary · Good Oldbury, B68 0QY

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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