Colmers Farm Primary School, Birmingham

From the headteacher's welcome: "Our staff endeavour to provide a calm, nurturing, inclusive and stimulating environment where good behaviour and mutual tolerance and respect are modelled by everyone and where everyone is valued and included. Your children are the reason why we are members of staff at this school."

The school runs a breakfast club and after-school care.

Coming up: an open day on Thursday 8 July 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 77% of Year 6 pupils at Colmers Farm Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 77% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 76% in Birmingham and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 69% in reading and 50% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 50 families put Colmers Farm Primary School as their first choice and 145 named it as one of their preferences, for 59 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Colmers Farm Primary School are Rednal Hill Junior School (0.4 miles, Good, 67% reading, 62% maths); Rednal Hill Infant School (0.4 miles, Good); St Columba's Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles, Good, 88% reading, 84% maths); and St James Catholic Primary School (0.5 miles, Outstanding, 100% reading, 100% maths).

Colmers Farm Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

Colmers Farm Primary School is one of 8 schools run by Excelsior Multi Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 68% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

21 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Colmers Farm Primary School (as of September 2025): 100% would recommend the school, 100% say their child is happy there and 100% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (100%); the weakest, that the school has high expectations for their child (95%).

56.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 11.9% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (63%), Mixed (13%) and Black (11%).

In 2026, 100 pupils (24.8%) received SEN support and 12 (3%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

Colmers Farm Primary School had 15 teachers in 2026, one for every 27 pupils: fewer teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Longbridge Rail Station, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line.

9 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Colmers Farm School (outside), 120 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Colmers Farm Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Colmers Farm Primary School issued 44 suspensions, 10.9 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Colmers Farm Primary School are Colmers School and Sixth Form College (under 0.1 miles), King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy (0.8 miles) and Waseley Hills High School (1.3 miles).