Southfields Primary School, Coventry

Ofsted's report card from its 15 September 2026 inspection grades Southfields Primary School on 7 areas: 7 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils achieve well across the curriculum because they build secure knowledge and skills over time."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders create a warm, nurturing environment, which means pupils want to come to school."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have designed an ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum that helps pupils build knowledge and skills securely from the early years to Year 6."

Early years - Strong standard. "The early years provision gives children a highly positive start to their education."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "The school has a highly inclusive ethos."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "All leaders set a purposeful and ambitious direction for the school."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "Leaders have carefully considered the context of the community and created a rich, inclusive programme of personal development."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should further strengthen teaching across all subjects and phases through refining adaptations and adjustments so that they are effective and highly responsive"; "Leaders should ensure exceptionally high standards are achieved in handwriting with practice that is targeted, precise and impactful"; "Leaders should refine assessment systems to secure pupil knowledge further and ensure high achievement for all".

In 2025, 75% of Year 6 pupils at Southfields Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 80% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 72% in Coventry and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 87% in reading and 80% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 43 families put Southfields Primary School as their first choice and 128 named it as one of their preferences, for 45 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 Southfields Primary School are St Mary and St Benedict Catholic Primary School (0.3 miles, Good, 79% reading, 79% maths); Sidney Stringer Primary Academy (0.4 miles, Outstanding, 83% reading, 79% maths); Gosford Park Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 47% reading, 44% maths); and Frederick Bird Academy (0.6 miles, 66% reading, 63% maths).

Southfields Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 4 schools.

75.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are Asian (36%), Black (28%) and other ethnic groups (12%).

In 2026, 32 pupils (7.1%) received SEN support and 8 (1.8%) 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 speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is Coventry Rail Station, about 1 mile away in a straight line.

14 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is All Saints Lane (opposite), 110 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Southfields Primary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 1039 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Coventry (253), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Southfields Primary School issued 1 suspension, 0.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Southfields Primary School are Sidney Stringer Academy (0.3 miles); Eden Girls' School, Coventry (0.5 miles); Blue Coat Church of England School and Music College (0.7 miles); and Stoke Park School (0.9 miles).