The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Thornton Primary School

URN 103268 · Primary · Community school · Birmingham

Thornton Road, Birmingham, B8 2LQ

How many families applied

Children start at this school in Year 3, based on the ages it takes. The government file these figures come from labels them Reception, which cannot be right for a school that admits no child of that age. Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 3, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2016 intake, 60 families named Thornton Primary School as their first preference, and the school made 30 offers.

That is 2.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 99% of schools admitting at Year 3 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 99% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 3, 2016 intake

Little change. Across the 3 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 2.03 in 2014 and 2.0 in 2016.

Applications and offers at Year 3, 3 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2016 60 195 30 2.00
2015 67 206 30 2.23
2014 61 194 30 2.03

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 24 May 2023

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 67.0% 4.0% 107.0 107.0
2023/24 62.0% 3.0% 104.0 105.0
2022/23 64.0% 0.0% 106.0 106.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 23.2 22.2 0.0 1.0 4.3%
2023/24 24.2 20.6 2.0 1.6 14.9%
2022/23 25.0 23.0 1.0 1.0 8.0%
2021/22 30.2 25.0 2.0 3.2 17.2%
2020/21 27.2 26.6 0.0 0.6 2.2%
2019/20 29.0 24.2 1.0 3.8 16.6%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Thornton Primary School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.