Graded inspection · Oct 2022 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 | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| 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 entry90 applications · 30 places offered · 31 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.0; Birmingham median median 2.7
- 2025 3.6; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2024 3.2; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2023 3.3; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2022 3.6; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2021 3.6; Birmingham median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2020 5.0; Birmingham median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2019 5.1; Birmingham median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2018 5.5; Birmingham median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 5.4; Birmingham median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2016 4.8; Birmingham median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 4.1; Birmingham median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 4.4; Birmingham median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Birmingham median
Dashed bars: as St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School (URN 103465), 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 | 90 | 3.0 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2025 * | 30 | 107 | 3.6 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2024 * | 30 | 97 | 3.2 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2023 * | 29 | 97 | 3.3 | 26 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2022 * | 28 | 100 | 3.6 | 21 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2021 * | 30 | 108 | 3.6 | 28 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2020 * | 30 | 151 | 5.0 | 47 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 154 | 5.1 | 52 | 1.73 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 165 | 5.5 | 53 | 1.77 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 163 | 5.4 | 49 | 1.63 |
| Sep 2016 * | 30 | 145 | 4.8 | 62 | 2.07 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 124 | 4.1 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 132 | 4.4 | 45 | 1.50 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20223.0applications per place
- 0.3 km · BirminghamRemains Good20223.4applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · BirminghamNot yet inspected2.6applications per place 73%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · Birmingham202675%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · BirminghamRemains Good20232.2applications per place
- 1.1 km · BirminghamGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 81%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · SolihullRemains Good2024
- 1.4 km · BirminghamGood20221.9applications per place 61%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Solihull20262.9applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 151940 · 330/3380
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 204 on roll
- Free school meals
- 27.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Replaced
- St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School (URN 103465)
- Address
- 841 Shirley Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, B28 9JJ
- Local authority
- Birmingham
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources