Highters Heath Community School

State-Funded School

highters-heath-community-school-birmingham-west-midlands-149483

West MidlandsRegion

BirminghamLocal Authority

Birmingham Selly OakConstituency

B14 4LYPostcode

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Academic Performance

Previous Ofsted

About the School

Highters Heath Community School is a state-funded primary for pupils aged 4–11, located in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Ofsted's most recent inspection is published as a report card rather than a single overall grade. It currently serves 167 pupils. Highters Heath Community School is part of Excelsior Multi Academy Trust.

Ofsted Report Card

Inspected 11 Nov 2025 · published 11 Jan 2026

Current inspection

Safeguarding standards

Met

Evaluation areas

Inclusion
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Achievement
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Early years
Strong standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard

Previous Ofsted Rating

Subject Areas (previous framework)

Leadership &management

Inadequate

Quality ofeducation

Inadequate

Personaldevelopment

Requires improvement

Behaviour &attitudes

Requires improvement

Early yearsprovision

Inadequate

Academic Performance

Well below average

Ranked against primary schools in England · 2023-24

Reading, writing & maths: 35%
Higher standard: 6%
Reading score: 101
Maths score: 100

Ethnicity

White

40%

Asian

28%

Black

Mixed

16%

Any other group

Unclassified

<1%

Pupils

167

Total Pupils

47%Boys

53%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

62%

England average

27%

First language not English

38%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Primary
Age range: 4 – 11
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 167
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)
MAT name: Excelsior Multi Academy Trust

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. Ungraded and monitoring visits are not shown.

Report published					Overall
5 May 2022	Inadequate	Inadequate	Requires improvement	Requires improvement	Inadequate

A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.

Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.