Kitts Green Academy, Birmingham

Ofsted's report card from its 12 May 2026 inspection grades Kitts Green Academy on 6 areas: 6 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Needs attention. "The focus on ensuring pupils have foundational knowledge in English and mathematics is effective and is helping pupils access the breadth of curriculum on offer."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Leaders understand why pupils are absent and track this carefully on an individual basis."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The school has set out an ambitious, broad curriculum defined through pathways and underpinned by detailed schemes of work and assessment processes."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders and staff know and understand pupils' needs well."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "School leaders and those across the trust have instilled a shared, compelling vision for the school moving forward."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "The school provides a range of valuable experiences and opportunities to pupils to support their wider development."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure they provide staff with suitable training and support to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver the curriculum effectively. This should include how well staff match activities to the intended learning and the precision with which they make adaptations to address pupils' needs"; "Leaders should ensure that levels of absence are reduced so that pupils miss less time at school"; "Leaders should ensure that when pupils miss learning, an effective strategy to help them to catch up on key learning is in place across the curriculum"; "Leaders should ensure that the personal development and wellbeing programme is well structured and monitored to ensure all pupils consistently access, and benefit from, the valuable opportunities the school provides".

In its own words: "Kitts Green Academy is a Primary and Key Stage 3 boys Special School situated in the eastern area of Birmingham. All the children who attend Kitts Green Academy have a Statement of Special Educational Need or an Education and Health Care Plan. Our school educates boys who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs."

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The nearest other special schools to Kitts Green Academy are Hallmoor School (0.2 miles, Good); Leycroft Academy (0.6 miles, Requires improvement); SILVER BIRCH SCHOOL (0.9 miles, Good); and Beaufort School (1.2 miles).

Kitts Green Academy is one of 7 schools run by Thrive Education Partnership, an academy trust.

87.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 5.5% speak English as an additional language, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (60%), Mixed (13%) and Asian (11%).

Almost every pupil at Kitts Green Academy has an education, health and care plan (55 of 55 in 2026). The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Lea Hall Rail Station, about 200 metres away (roughly a 2-minute walk).

15 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Folliott Road (after), 120 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Kitts Green Academy 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, Kitts Green Academy issued 120 suspensions, 206.9 for every 100 pupils, and 2 permanent exclusions.