Voluntary aided school · Primary
Birmingham · B29 6NU · Birmingham
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.5 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 103326
Water Mill Primary School
Community school · Birmingham · B29 6TS
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 4–11
Pupils
205
Local authority
Birmingham
Age range
Ages 4–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed community school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Birmingham, Birmingham, 205 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 42.9%.
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Overview
- School type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 103326
Location
- Address
- Water Mill Close, Selly Oak
- Postcode
- B29 6TS
- Town
- Birmingham
- County
- West Midlands
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- District
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Selly Oak
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 205
- Boys / girls
- 113 / 92
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 205 / 210 (98%)
- Free school meals
- 42.9%
- FSM pupils
- 88
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Community school
Contact
- Headteacher
- Paula Rudd
- Telephone
- 01214647769
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Needs attention
Inspection date
2026-06-09
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 85%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 23%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 110.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 108.0