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The Dame Ellen Pinsent School

Special schoolAges 5–11Foundation

Birmingham, B13 0RW · Birmingham local authority

Birmingham’s School Grade B better than 55% of towns in England

How full
158 pupils
105% of its 150 places
Free school meals
60%
60 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about The Dame Ellen Pinsent School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 158 pupils for 150 places
  • 60% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, June 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B13 0) sold for a median £238,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

146 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
32.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
63%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 29%Boys 71%
Its letter

No letter for The Dame Ellen Pinsent School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns), June 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near The Dame Ellen Pinsent School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in B13 0, the school’s postcode sector

Birmingham property prices →
£238,000
median sale, 358 sales in 36 months · Birmingham £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025B13 0Birmingham
B13 0Birmingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£468K
Semi-detached
£286K
Terraced
£224K
Flat
£120K
B13 0Birmingham

Homes in B13 0 sell for a little over Birmingham’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

31 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNA−C+DDA−A−CAA−A−AC+BB+B+C−B+BB−A+A+C+A−AC−DBA−C+The Dame Ellen Pinsent Scho…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Birmingham, B13 0RW

The Dame Ellen Pinsent School: common questions

What is The Dame Ellen Pinsent School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (June 2024).

How much do houses cost near The Dame Ellen Pinsent School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B13 0, sold for a median £238,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (358 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Birmingham’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.