Brickhouse Primary School, Rowley Regis
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Location
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Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Brickhouse Primary School excels at creating a happy, inclusive environment where every child feels valued and supported. The school has made impressive progress in mathematics and reading, with particularly strong phonics teaching in the early years. Staff work tirelessly to support disadvantaged pupils and their families, with many pupils making better than expected progress across all subjects.
Key Strengths
- Exceptional leadership with a strong focus on helping every pupil succeed
- Pupils are happy, confident and demonstrate excellent learning behaviours with very positive staff-pupil relationships
- Successfully improved mathematics progress to significantly above national average
- High-quality phonics teaching across early years and key stage 1
- Strong safeguarding culture with detailed records and swift follow-up of concerns
- Effective support for disadvantaged pupils with at least expected progress across all subjects
Areas for Improvement
- Most able pupils in key stage 1 lack sufficiently challenging reading books and are not making the progress they are capable of
- Teachers' expectations are not high enough for most able pupils in writing, resulting in missed opportunities to deepen their learning
- Inconsistent presentation standards in pupils' work, with some pieces neat and others untidy
- All-level leaders need training to develop their own improvement plans based on data analysis
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is effective, with exceptional culture throughout the school, detailed high-quality records, swift follow-up of all concerns, and thorough checks on adults working in the school.
Extracurricular Activities
Creative zones, games zones, sporting activities, calm zone after lunch
Brickhouse Primary School continues to be good, with a passionate leadership team that has maintained educational quality since the last inspection in 2013. The school has successfully addressed previous areas for improvement, particularly in mathematics progress and early reading development.
At a Glance
47.8%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has declined from 67% to 47%. Maths has improved from 50% to 57%. Writing has improved from 53% to 60%.
Class Sizes
23.7
Avg class size
28.7
Infant (KS1)
28.0
KS2
9
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
87%
Available places
205 pupils
236 capacity
31 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Rowley Regis
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Rowley Regis
Admissions Demand - Sandwell
Places available
4,920
Applications
3,904
Got 1st preference
93.8%
Got preferred school
98.2%
Primary admissions across Sandwell (2025/26)
Inspection History(107)
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Pupil Absence2024/25
7.03144%
Overall absence
23.88889%
Persistent absence
180
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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