Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School
Trittiford Road, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, B13 0EUOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3 to 11. It is one of the 501 schools in Birmingham. It ranks 35th of 264 primary schools in Birmingham. Its latest Ofsted inspection, in January 2025, graded each key judgement and gave no overall Ofsted rating.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 7 January 2025, report published 6 March 2025
This inspection graded each key judgement and gave no overall effectiveness grade.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years provision
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 7 January 2025
Pupils enjoy attending this warm and welcoming school. They enjoy their learning and strive to live up to the school's high expectations. They are helped to do this through a culture of support and encouragement. Pupils achieve well in most subjects. Pupils behave well during most aspects of the school day. This is evident in classrooms and in the way pupils move around the school calmly and sensibly. Pupils feel safe at school. They know when and how to seek help. They trust staff to take them seriously and to sort out any problems if they arise. Pupils enjoy taking part in the wide range of clubs and activities. They develop a strong sense of responsibility taking on many different ambassador roles. Their ideas are valued and acted on. For example, reading ambassadors support the school's 'book swap' and subject ambassadors help staff to reward other pupils for high-quality work. Recent staffing changes in the early years have led to a period of instability. Positive changes are being made. However, the curriculum is not delivered as intended in some areas. As a result, children do not get off to the strongest start as they are not fully settled into the school's routines and expectations.
What the school should improve
- Children in the early years are not well enough prepared for the next stages of their education. The expectations for participation and the learning activities that staff design do not ensure that children consistently practise and apply their new learning. The school should ensure that staff receive training to enable them to implement a curriculum in the early years that helps children to be well prepared for their next steps.
- In a minority of subjects, teachers do not design activities with sufficient depth in order to meet the aims of the ambitious curriculum. This means that pupils do not have a firm enough understanding of important concepts and subject-specific vocabulary. The school should ensure that the work that teachers give to pupils is closely matched to the aims of the intended curriculum.
Exam results
SATs results (key stage 2), 2024/25
29 pupils took the tests
Pupil numbers and mix
217 pupils on roll, with places for 210
Schools near Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billesley Primary School | 0.4 miles | Ofsted: Outstanding | 73% met the expected standard |
| Yardley Wood Community Primary School | 0.4 miles | Ofsted: Good | 37% met the expected standard |
| Chilcote Primary School | 0.8 miles | Ofsted judgements: Good to outstanding | 81% met the expected standard |
| Highters Heath Community School | 0.8 miles | Report card: Expected standard to strong standard | 65% met the expected standard |
| Hall Green Infant School | 0.9 miles | Ofsted: Good | Not published |
School details
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Nursery classes
- Yes
- Headteacher
- Mrs Pauline David
- Phone
- 01214442684
- Address
- Trittiford Road, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, B13 0EU
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- URN
- 103430
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Exam results for 2024/25 from the Department for Education. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.