Kitts Green Academy, Birmingham
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Overall
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Kitts Green Academy excels at creating a caring, welcoming environment where vulnerable pupils feel safe and supported. The school has successfully re-engaged many pupils who had previously missed years of education, helping them to feel confident and enjoy learning. Staff are highly trained in understanding pupils' complex needs and use skilled, compassionate approaches including a relational approach that has dramatically reduced the need for physical interventions.
Key Strengths
- Strong focus on pupils' safety, wellbeing and mental health with a relational approach reducing physical interventions by over 75%
- Effective pastoral support and staff training in understanding social, emotional and mental health needs
- Solid foundations in reading and mathematics through prioritised phonics programmes
- Caring, welcoming environment where pupils feel safe and behaviour has improved significantly
- Clear leadership vision with accurate understanding of strengths and weaknesses
Areas for Improvement
- Inconsistent curriculum delivery across subjects due to staffing challenges and past training gaps
- Achievement across the curriculum not consistently secure, affecting pupils' preparation for future learning
- Attendance remains too high despite personalised approaches and individual improvements
- Inclusion adaptations for autism and other SEND needs not consistently effective
- No systematic approach to catch-up support for pupils who have missed learning
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met. Leaders have established an open culture where safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed, resulting in pupils feeling safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Judo lessons with external competitions, community garden work, school council, personal development activities, careers guidance, visitor programmes including police, assemblies with cultural and faith events, work-based experiences
Kitts Green Academy is a specialist school for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities that has joined a trust recently and is undergoing rapid improvement. The school provides a caring environment focused on helping vulnerable pupils re-engage with education through relationships, safety and belonging.
At a Glance
87.3%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2025/26KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 0% to 40%. Maths has remained stable at around 0%. Writing has remained stable at around 0%.
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
61%
Available places
55 pupils
90 capacity
35 spare places available
Area Demand Pressure - Birmingham
Based on MHCLG housing supply data for Birmingham
Admissions Demand - Birmingham
Places available
15,089
Applications
14,943
Got 1st preference
73.6%
Got preferred school
96.8%
Secondary admissions across Birmingham (2025/26)
Inspection History(104)
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SEN Provision
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Pupil Demographics
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Pupil Absence2024/25
21.67174%
Overall absence
70%
Persistent absence
60
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
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