Riverside Education, Birmingham
Data last updated 11 Sept 2026
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 3 months agoReport card - no overall grade (new Ofsted framework from Sep 2024)
Ofsted Insights
What This School Does Well
Riverside Education excels at helping pupils who have experienced disrupted education to re-engage with learning and feel positive about school. The school delivers an ambitious, broad curriculum with particular strengths in personal development, practical skills training through carpentry and farm work, and preparing students for their next steps. Staff are deeply committed to giving every child a fresh start, and parents speak highly of the transformative difference the school makes to their children.
Key Strengths
- Personal development programme with carefully designed relationships and safety education that gives every pupil a voice
- Strong behaviour and positive attitudes to learning, with calm, purposeful learning supported by trusted relationships
- Extensive careers programme with practical hands-on skills in carpentry, cookery and animal care on the farm
- Rich enrichment opportunities including sports, arts, music and therapeutic activities tailored to pupil interests
- Inclusive culture where pupils feel valued and successful, often for the first time
Areas for Improvement
- Some staff do not always check pupils' understanding effectively or provide clear, precise feedback to develop learning more deeply
- Embedding literacy and numeracy skills consistently across all curriculum subjects needs further development
- Maintaining regular attendance consistently across all three sites remains an ongoing focus
- Developing a fully embedded culture of reading across the school requires additional work
Safeguarding
Safeguarding standards are met - the school has created an open and positive culture of safeguarding where all legal requirements are fulfilled and pupils are made safer and feel safe.
Extracurricular Activities
Sports, arts, music, performing, therapeutic activities, carpentry, cookery, animal care on farm, peer mentoring, educational visits
Riverside Education is a special educational needs school across three sites that successfully re-engages pupils who have experienced disrupted education. The school provides a broad, ambitious curriculum with strong emphasis on personal development, practical skills and preparing pupils for life beyond school.
At a Glance
No
Boarding
No
Nursery
Yes
Sixth Form
No
Special Measures
Class Sizes
0.0
Avg class size
0
Total classes
2024/25 academic year
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
100%
Over capacity
100 pupils
100 capacity
0 places over capacity
Area Demand Pressure - Birmingham
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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)
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Pupil Demographics
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