Small Heath Lower School (Birmingham)

 secondary school, Grade II* Listed (UK)

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Small Heath School is a secondary school and sixth form on Waverley Road in Small Heath, Birmingham, England. This very large school serves an inner city area of Birmingham. It is a popular choice with parents, with more than two applications for every place available. Almost all students walk to school from the immediate community. The proportion known to be eligible for free school meals is very high, as is the proportion who have special educational needs or disabilities. The great majority of students with special educational needs or disabilities have behavioural or moderate learning difficulties. There are many more boys than there are girls at the school. The large majority of students are of Pakistani heritage, with others coming from a range of different ethnic backgrounds such as Bangladeshi,Somalian and a very small percentage of European origin (Romanian and Swedish).

The former Waverley Road School is one of twenty-six surviving schools built by the Birmingham School Board, which together form one of the most important groups of board schools in the country. One of the best schools designed by Martin and Chamberlain, a leading architectural practice in late-Victorian Birmingham.

Small Heath Lower School, Waverley Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 OEG