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Shirley Heath Junior School

PrimaryAges 7–11Community

Solihull, B90 3DS · Solihull local authority

Solihull’s School Grade A− better than 82% of towns in England

Its letter
54%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
How full
420 pupils
100% of its 420 places
Free school meals
17%
17 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Shirley Heath Junior School

  • Its own letter, B−: Key Stage 2 results better than 54% of England’s primary schools
  • Ofsted: Inspected, September 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B90 3) sold for a median £360,000; Solihull’s is £338,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 64%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 54% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Solihull avg 67%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Shirley Heath Junior 64%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 105, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading78%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)72%
England’s schools 73%
Maths78%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling79%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 21 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
52%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
68%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three12%
England’s schools 8% · Solihull 13% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Solihull and Solihull, side by side

2023–2025

All 47 graded primaries in Solihull. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Solihull’s schools are coloured by their letter.

45%53%61%69%77%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Shirley Heath Junior
ABCDElsewhere in SolihullShirley Heath Junior
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Smith's Wood Primary AcademyA+52%84%
Oak Cottage Primary SchoolA+5%84%
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolA32%81%
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolA7%80%
Widney Junior SchoolA17%77%
Monkspath Junior and Infant SchoolA9%77%
Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolA8%77%
Knowle Church of England Primary AcademyA8%76%
Dorridge Primary SchoolA−5%75%
St Patricks Church of England Primary AcademyA−11%74%
Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary SchoolA−14%74%
Lady Katherine Leveson Church of England Primary SchoolA−31%73%
St Anthony's Catholic Primary SchoolA−32%73%
Sharmans Cross Junior SchoolA−12%72%
St Alphege Church of England Junior SchoolA−10%72%
Bentley Heath Church of England Primary SchoolA−10%72%
Dickens Heath Community Primary SchoolA−14%71%
St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary SchoolA−11%71%
Greswold Primary SchoolB+17%70%
George Fentham Endowed SchoolB+16%70%
St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolB+22%69%
Tidbury Green SchoolB21%67%
Coleshill Heath SchoolB63%67%
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolB11%66%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew TreeB21%66%
Fordbridge Community Primary SchoolB60%66%
Shirley Heath Junior SchoolB−17%64%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St JamesB−9%64%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy LangleyB−18%64%
Cheswick Green Primary SchoolB−21%63%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Hockley HeathB−5%63%
St Andrew's Catholic Primary SchoolB−17%63%
Valley PrimaryB−16%62%
Haslucks Green SchoolB−14%62%
Olton Primary SchoolB−19%61%
Meriden Church of England Primary SchoolC+16%60%
Balsall Common Primary SchoolC+9%60%
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary SchoolC+14%60%
Mill Lodge Primary SchoolC+27%59%
Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary SchoolC55%56%
Ulverley SchoolC23%56%
Castle Bromwich Junior SchoolC37%56%
Marston Green Junior SchoolC29%55%
Coppice AcademyC−33%53%
St John the Baptist Catholic Primary SchoolC−44%51%
Windy Arbor Primary SchoolC−59%51%
Kineton Green Primary SchoolC−38%49%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

418 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
14.6%England 15.3%
EHC plan
3.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
23.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
18.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

Shirley Heath Junior School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B−Better than 54% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Graded inspection (no overall grade since September 2024), September 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Shirley Heath Junior School

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

Home prices in B90 3, the school’s postcode sector

Solihull property prices →
£360,000
median sale, 473 sales in 36 months · Solihull £338,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025B90 3Solihull
B90 3Solihull

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£512K
Semi-detached
£380K
Terraced
£330K
Flat
£175K
B90 3Solihull

Homes in B90 3 sell for a little over Solihull’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

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAA−AC+B−A−AA−B+B−A−AA−B−B−B−Shirley Heath Junior School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Solihull, B90 3DS

Shirley Heath Junior School: common questions

Is Shirley Heath Junior School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 54% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B−), with 64% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Inspected, September 2024.

What is Shirley Heath Junior School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (September 2024).

How much do houses cost near Shirley Heath Junior School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B90 3, sold for a median £360,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (473 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; Solihull’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.

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