Jamia Islamia Birmingham, Birmingham

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades Jamia Islamia Birmingham on 7 areas: 3 needs attention and 4 urgent improvement. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Needs attention. "Pupils do not achieve as well as they could."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Leaders do not routinely monitor the quality of the school curriculum."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders' approach to identifying and meeting the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) is underdeveloped."

Attendance and behaviour - Urgent improvement. "Leaders do not have robust oversight of pupils' attendance."

Leadership and governance - Urgent improvement. "The proprietor has failed to fulfil its statutory responsibilities to keep pupils safe and to prepare them well for life in modern Britain."

Personal development and wellbeing - Urgent improvement. "Pupils' personal development is not fostered well enough."

Post-16 provision - Urgent improvement. "As with the main school, leaders have failed to ensure that students in the sixth form develop an appropriately detailed knowledge about the world outside the school gates."

Safeguarding standards were NOT met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "The proprietor must act swiftly to embed a robust culture of safeguarding across the school. This must ensure that leaders and staff understand the risks faced to pupils, and are vigilant to these risks, and that swift action is taken to ensure pupils are kept as safe as possible where concerns arise"; "The proprietor must establish and maintain high expectations for pupils' attendance. They must ensure that leaders and staff recognise the risks posed by repeated absence and ensure that robust attendance systems and procedures are in place to monitor and tackle absenteeism. They must also ensure that pupils' attendance is recorded accurately"; "The proprietor should ensure that the school's provision for pupils' personal development and wellbeing meets the Department for Education's statutory relationships and sex education and health education guidance"; "The proprietor should provide opportunities for pupils, including those in the sixth form, to gain and benefit from a broad range of high-quality experiences and opportunities to enrich their learning, broaden their outlook beyond their school and develop their understanding about the world of work"; "The proprietor must acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain ongoing and consistent compliance with all of the independent school standards. They should take immediate action to address the unmet independent school standards"; "The proprietor should ensure that leaders accurately identify the needs of pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. They should make sure that staff are supported to adapt the delivery of the curriculum to meet pupils' needs and they should monitor the impact of this work on pupils' progress carefully"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers check pupils' knowledge and understanding effectively and use these checks to adapt their teaching to address any gaps in learning so that pupils develop a secure understanding of the things they are taught".

In its own words: "Jamia Islamia Birmingham, the College of Islamic Knowledge and Guidance, was established in February 2000 for boys of age 11 years and over. The Muslim community of the United Kingdom needs schools that provide a comprehensive, positive and inclusive understanding of Islam as well as secular education in a secure Islamic environment."

The Department for Education's GCSE measures do not count IGCSEs, which many independent schools take instead of GCSEs, so the Attainment 8 and English and maths figures it publishes for Jamia Islamia Birmingham can understate its results. We do not rank or compare them; ask the school for its own GCSE and IGCSE results.

The nearest other independent schools to Jamia Islamia Birmingham are Darul Uloom Islamic High School (0.6 miles, selective); Al-Ameen Primary School (0.7 miles); Greenfields Primary School (0.7 miles, Good); and Green Heath School (0.7 miles, Requires improvement).

Of the 8 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 0% went on to university or other higher education.

In 2026, 0 pupils (0%) received SEN support and 0 (0%) had an education, health and care plan.

The nearest railway station is Small Heath Rail Station, about 450 metres away (roughly a 6-minute walk).

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Church View (adjacent), 100 metres away.

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

In August 2026, police recorded 680 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, vehicle crime and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Birmingham (435), as is usual near a town centre.