Priestley Smith School

State-Funded School

priestley-smith-school-birmingham-west-midlands

West MidlandsRegion

BirminghamLocal Authority

Birmingham ErdingtonConstituency

B42 2PYPostcode

9.4

Academic Performance

Ofsted

About the School

Priestley Smith School is a state-funded special for pupils aged 2–19, located in Birmingham, West Midlands.

The school is rated Outstanding by Ofsted. It currently serves 94 pupils.

Ofsted Rating

Safeguarding effective

Rating last maintained

2024

Subject Areas

Leadership &management

Outstanding

Early yearsprovision

Outstanding

Sixth formprovision

Outstanding

Ethnicity

White

32%

Asian

46%

Black

Mixed

Any other group

Pupils

Total Pupils

53%Boys

47%Girls

Pupil Characteristics

Free school meals

55%

England average

27%

First language not English

35%

England average

22%

Young carers

England average

0%25%50%75%100%

DfE school census, January 2026.

Key Information

Phase: Special
Age range: 2 – 19
Deprivation band: Most deprived
Total pupils: 94
IDACI quintile: 5 (Least deprived)

Inspection history

Ofsted has published one graded inspection for this school. The most recent ungraded inspection is shown below.

Standards maintained

Ungraded inspection on 9 October 2024. An ungraded inspection checks whether the existing grade still holds; it does not award a new one.

Read the inspection letter on Ofsted

Report published					Overall
25 Feb 2015	Outstanding	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Not reported in this inspection	Outstanding

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.