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Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Voluntary aided
29 Ravenhurst Street, Camp Hill, Birmingham B12 0EJ · hbsda.bham.sch.uk · 0121 693 7742
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2025
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 50%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Birmingham 63%, England 62%
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Birmingham Council
- Demand for places
- 0.7
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 138
- 63% of 218 places
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 33.3%
- First language not English
- 42%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Birmingham Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 4 families put the school first and 6 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 6 | 4 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 12 | 7 | 0.6 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 10 | 8 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 90% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 50% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Birmingham it was 63%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼50% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●104 | 106 | ||
| ▼101 | 105 | ||
| ●105 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School on 11 February 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 11 Feb 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Inadequate |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Inadequate |
| Early years | Inadequate |
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2019
Other inspections
Report cards, from November 2025
- Apr 2026Monitoring visitEffective action
September 2019 to November 2025
- Jul 2025Monitoring visitEffective action
Before September 2019
Jul 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective - Sept 2018Monitoring visitEffective action
Mar 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective Feb 2015Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
55% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (11 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 55%
- Replies
- 11
- 7% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 82% who raised concerns
based on the 36% who had a child bullied