PUPILS in Birmingham are improving virtually across the board, according to the city’s latest results tables.
There have been significant improvements in pupils’ results, most noticeably among early years reception children and at GCSE.
It prompted Coun Les Lawrence, the city’s Cabinet member for children, young people and families to say that Birmingham was gaining recognition as an “education powerhouse”.
But he was concerned at whether national budgets would allow the success to continue.
He said that school funding was “very ring-fenced” for the next financial year, but they had no knowledge of what would come after that.
Birmingham’s GCSE results led the success story, with the proportion of pupils achieving at least five A*-C passes rising from last year’s 66.4 per cent to 72.4 per cent – well above the provisional national average of 70 per cent.
The figure also improves when English and maths are included, rising from 45.4 per cent to 47.5 per cent, closing the gap with the national average to little more than two per cent.
The number of secondary schools at risk of Government intervention – those with less than 30 per cent including maths and English – has halved from 20 last year to just ten.
One of the schools to improve is Harborne Hill, which has taken its five A*-Cs including English and maths from 15 per cent to 34 per cent.
Head teacher Andy Wright said: “I am delighted we have gone through the final threshold and proud of what we have achieved.”
At Key Stage 1, the number of seven-year-old pupils achieving level 2 or above in both reading and writing increased by two percentage points to 80 per cent and 76 per cent respectively.
At reception age, Birmingham achieved seven of 11 new targets based around personal, social and emotional development and communication, language and literacy.
| School Name | End of KS4 Roll | Achieving 5 or more A*-C | Achieving 5 or more A*-G | Achieving 5 or more A*-C inc. GCSE Eng & Maths. | Total Point score per pupil |
| Al-Hijrah School | 58 | 81% | 100% | 72% | 405.6 |
| Archbishop Ilsley Catholic Technology College | 208 | 75% | 99% | 55% | 413.2 |
| Aston Manor School | 141 | 72% | 98% | 49% | 421.7 |
| Bartley Green School | 174 | 90% | 99% | 51% | 550.6 |
| Baverstock Foundation School and Specialist Sports College | 201 | 45% | 94% | 27% | 346.2 |
| Bishop Challoner Catholic School | 172 | 81% | 96% | 69% | 390.4 |
| Bishop Vesey's Grammar School | 123 | 99% | 100% | 98% | 487 |
| Bishop Walsh Catholic School | 149 | 92% | 99% | 73% | 514.7 |
| Bordesley Green Girls' Specialist Business & Enterprise School | 125 | 71% | 98% | 43% | 484.9 |
| Bournville School and Sixth Form Centre | 203 | 82% | 94% | 46% | 459.4 |
| Broadway School | 205 | 63% | 90% | 37% | 400.9 |
| Cardinal Wiseman Catholic Technology College | 115 | 65% | 92% | 43% | 377.3 |
| Castle Vale School & Specialist Performing Arts College | 152 | 62% | 96% | 22% | 409 |
| Cockshut Hill Technology College | 244 | 58% | 89% | 30% | 373.5 |
| Colmers School & Sports College | 197 | 78% | 95% | 54% | 456.5 |
| Dame Elizabeth Cadbury Technology College | 108 | 53% | 89% | 35% | 356.3 |
| Fairfax School | 216 | 69% | 96% | 56% | 439.8 |
| Frankley Community High School | 66 | 76% | 92% | 21% | 394.2 |
| George Dixon International School & Sixth Form Centre | 189 | 61% | 93% | 40% | 348.9 |
| Golden Hillock School | 163 | 74% | 94% | 38% | 417.7 |
| Great Barr School | 417 | 67% | 94% | 40% | 372 |
| Hall Green Secondary School | 180 | 72% | 97% | 57% | 406.2 |
| Hamstead Hall Community Learning Centre | 185 | 76% | 96% | 62% | 429 |
| Handsworth Grammar School | 140 | 93% | 99% | 93% | 501.7 |
| Handsworth Wood Girls' School | 119 | 81% | 97% | 44% | 480 |
| Harborne Hill School | 91 | 85% | 93% | 34% | 466.6 |
| Hillcrest School A Specialist Mathematics & Computing College | 122 | 78% | 96% | 41% | 527.7 |
| Hodge Hill Girls' School | 135 | 75% | 100% | 54% | 467.7 |
| Hodge Hill Sports and Enterprise College | 204 | 83% | 91% | 30% | 460.8 |
| Holte Visual and Performing Arts College | 164 | 74% | 99% | 40% | 450.5 |
| Holy Trinity Catholic Media Arts College | 119 | 66% | 92% | 49% | 357.8 |
| Holyhead School | 194 | 75% | 98% | 48% | 418.1 |
| John Willmott School | 184 | 70% | 96% | 48% | 425.6 |
| King Edward VI Aston School | 104 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 637 |
| King Edward VI Camp Hill Girls | 128 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 672.7 |
| King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys | 93 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 597.6 |
| King Edward VI Five Ways School | 157 | 99% | 100% | 99% | 697.6 |
| King Edward VI Handsworth School | 151 | 99% | 99% | 99% | 570 |
| King's Heath Boys' Mathematics and Computing College | 103 | 76% | 93% | 33% | 383.9 |
| King's Norton Boys' School | 121 | 71% | 98% | 55% | 463.8 |
| Kings Norton Girls' School | 149 | 78% | 92% | 73% | 418.9 |
| Kings Norton High School | 93 | 71% | 91% | 23% | 433.8 |
| Kingsbury School & Sports College | 170 | 55% | 90% | 22% | 369.3 |
| Lordswood Boys School | 120 | 63% | 90% | 31% | 382.6 |
| Lordswood Girls' School and Specialist Centre for Media Arts | 127 | 87% | 100% | 50% | 628.9 |
| Moseley School | 241 | 47% | 93% | 33% | 318.5 |
| Ninestiles School a Technology College | 251 | 72% | 87% | 51% | 372 |
| Park View Business and Enterprise School | 119 | 61% | 92% | 48% | 351 |
| Perry Beeches School | 165 | 92% | 95% | 64% | 548.2 |
| Plantsbrook School | 204 | 80% | 98% | 61% | 438.7 |
| Queensbridge School | 127 | 69% | 97% | 31% | 463.5 |
| Saltley School and Specialist Science College | 186 | 75% | 97% | 37% | 472.5 |
| Selly Park Tech College for Girls | 140 | 91% | 99% | 66% | 544.9 |
| Sheldon Heath Community Arts College | 194 | 72% | 96% | 41% | 426.5 |
| Shenley Court School and Sixth Form Centre | 182 | 51% | 94% | 25% | 362.6 |
| Small Heath School | 214 | 63% | 97% | 42% | 410.6 |
| St Alban's CE Specialist Engineering College | 79 | 75% | 96% | 30% | 427.1 |
| St Edmund Campion Catholic School | 141 | 59% | 93% | 43% | 366.9 |
| St John Wall Catholic School | 125 | 62% | 95% | 33% | 405.2 |
| St Paul’s School for Girls | 148 | 84% | 100% | 68% | 427.9 |
| St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School | 194 | 66% | 98% | 51% | 404.2 |
| Stockland Green Technology College | 116 | 84% | 91% | 30% | 473.7 |
| Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls | 151 | 100% | 100% | 100% | 612.8 |
| Swanshurst School | 286 | 86% | 99% | 49% | 480 |
| The Arthur Terry School | 242 | 85% | 100% | 67% | 471.8 |
| The College High Specialist Arts School | 178 | 69% | 95% | 27% | 367.5 |
| The Four Dwellings High School (Specialist Science College) | 122 | 57% | 89% | 29% | 374.8 |
| The Heartlands High School | 116 | 61% | 100% | 41% | 404 |
| The International School & Community College (East B'ham) | 153 | 59% | 88% | 24% | 382.4 |
| Turves Green Boys Technology and Humanities College | 123 | 55% | 93% | 46% | 329.3 |
| Turves Green Girls Sch/Tech Coll. | 142 | 76% | 99% | 30% | 500.2 |
| Washwood Heath Technology College | 255 | 80% | 94% | 33% | 424.7 |
| Waverley School | 142 | 91% | 99% | 42% | 487.9 |
| Wheelers Lane Technology College | 120 | 82% | 98% | 48% | 576.3 |
| Yardleys Secondary School | 176 | 87% | 95% | 43% | 531 |
| Special Schools | |||||
| School Name | End of KS4 Roll | Achieving 5 or more A*-C | Achieving 5 or more A*-G | Achieving 5 or more A*-C inc. GCSE Eng & Maths. | Total Point score per pupil |
| Baskerville | 8 | 0% | 13% | 0% | 81.3 |
| Braidwood School | 11 | 27% | 45% | 0% | 254 |
| Calthorpe School | 14 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 10.9 |
| Hallmoor School | 29 | 0% | 3% | 0% | 37.3 |
| Hunters Hill Technology College | 22 | 0% | 5% | 0% | 54 |
| James Brindley School | 68 | 35% | 62% | 25% | 226 |
| Lindsworth School | 50 | 2% | 12% | 0% | 57.7 |
| Mayfield School | 14 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 6.6 |
| Priestley Smith School | 9 | 22% | 22% | 22% | 186.9 |
| Queensbury School (S) | 41 | 0% | 15% | 0% | 89.9 |
| Selly Oak Trust School (S) | 55 | 4% | 20% | 4% | 155.4 |
| The Victoria | 9 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 3.4 |
| Wilson Stuart Sch & Sports College | 10 | 20% | 50% | 20% | 181.6 |
