United Kingdom / Regions / Birmingham
Birmingham
West Midlands, England · population ~1141k · 436 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 329 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Birmingham
436 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (329 of 436 here), 94.5% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 5 schools (1.1% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 436 schools.
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Starbank School | Secondary | 2,199 | Good | 06/06/2023 | Ofsted |
Swanshurst School | Secondary | 1,920 | Outstanding· | 15/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
The Arthur Terry School | Secondary | 1,741 | Good | 15/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Washwood Heath Academy | Secondary | 1,706 | Good | 21/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Waverley School | Secondary | 1,696 | Good | 28/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Fairfax | Secondary | 1,571 | Good | 21/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Plantsbrook School | Secondary | 1,570 | Not graded | 26/02/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Ark Victoria Academy | Secondary | 1,544 | Not graded | 23/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ninestiles, an Academy | Secondary | 1,488 | Good | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Moseley School and Sixth Form | Secondary | 1,428 | Good· | 29/09/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School | Secondary | 1,413 | Outstanding | 30/04/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Saltley Academy | Secondary | 1,380 | Good· | 11/05/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
King Edward VI Handsworth School | Secondary | 1,324 | Not graded | 17/12/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
King Edward VI Five Ways School | Secondary | 1,311 | Good | 28/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Fortis Academy | Secondary | 1,294 | Good | 24/10/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Holyhead School | Secondary | 1,271 | Good | 21/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Broadway Academy | Secondary | 1,271 | Good | 11/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bishop Challoner Catholic College | Secondary | 1,246 | Good· | 13/10/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls | Secondary | 1,215 | Good | 08/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hodge Hill College | Secondary | 1,205 | Good· | 02/12/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.