Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Birmingham
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry96 applications · 30 places offered · 34 named it first
- 2026 3.2; Birmingham median median 2.7
- 2025 2.9; Birmingham median median 2.7
- 2024 3.2; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2023 3.4; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2022 3.7; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2021 3.4; Birmingham median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2020 3.7; Birmingham median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2019 4.0; Birmingham median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2018 3.4; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 4.9; Birmingham median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2016 3.8; Birmingham median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 3.7; Birmingham median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 2.6; Birmingham median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Birmingham median
Dashed bars: as Story Wood School (URN 103213), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 30 | 96 | 3.2 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 86 | 2.9 | 30 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 * | 30 | 96 | 3.2 | 27 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2023 * | 30 | 102 | 3.4 | 27 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2022 * | 30 | 111 | 3.7 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2021 * | 30 | 102 | 3.4 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 112 | 3.7 | 40 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 119 | 4.0 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 102 | 3.4 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 146 | 4.9 | 63 | 2.10 |
| Sep 2016 * | 29 | 110 | 3.8 | 51 | 1.76 |
| Sep 2015 * | 28 | 103 | 3.7 | 49 | 1.75 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 77 | 2.6 | 36 | 1.20 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Story Wood SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20253.2applications per place
- 0.6 km · BirminghamGood20243.7applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place 72%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · BirminghamGood20234.2applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · BirminghamRemains Good20242.6applications per place 78%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · BirminghamRemains Good20222.0applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · BirminghamRemains Good20232.0applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · BirminghamGood20192.7applications per place 40%met the SATs standard
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 150876 · 330/2097
- Capacity
- 262 pupils · 225 on roll
- Free school meals
- 48.1% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 October 2024
- Replaced
- Story Wood School (URN 103213)
- Address
- Hastings Road, Perry Common, Birmingham, B23 5AJ
- Local authority
- Birmingham
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources