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Fee-paying schools in B5, Birmingham

29 within 3 miles of the district's centre, nearest first. Age ranges are each school's own statutory range, which is what decides whether it takes a given year group.

School	Distance	Ages	Takes
West House School	0.6 mi	1 to 11	Primary Boys
Heritage Academy	0.7 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Boys
Camp Hill Education	0.8 mi	11 to 19	Secondary
Priory School	0.9 mi		All-through Selective
Redstone Academy for Boys	0.9 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Boys
Redstone Academy for Girls	0.9 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Girls Selective
St George's School Edgbaston	1.0 mi	2 to 19	All-through Selective Christian
Mander Portman Woodward Independent College	1.0 mi	14 to 19	Secondary
City United Academy (CUA)	1.1 mi	11 to 18	Secondary
Hallfield School	1.1 mi		Primary Selective Church of England
Elmhurst Ballet School	1.1 mi	11 to 19	Secondary
Hazrat Khadijatul Kubra Girls School	1.2 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Girls Islam
Edgbaston High School for Girls	1.3 mi	2 to 19	All-through Girls Selective
Green Heath School	1.5 mi	14 to 19	Secondary
Green Oak Academy	1.5 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Girls
Jamia Islamia Birmingham	1.6 mi	11 to 19	Secondary Boys
Greenfields Primary School	1.6 mi	5 to 11	Primary Islam
King Edward's School	1.7 mi	11 to 19	Secondary Boys Selective Christian
King Edward VI High School for Girls	1.7 mi	11 to 19	Secondary Girls Selective Christian
Darul Uloom Islamic High School	1.8 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Boys Selective
Orion School	1.8 mi	13 to 16	Secondary
Flexible Learning School	1.8 mi	13 to 16	Secondary
The Blue Coat School Birmingham	1.9 mi	3 to 11	Primary Church of England
Future First Independent School	2.0 mi	13 to 18	Secondary
Newbury Independent School	2.1 mi	11 to 19	Secondary
Birmingham Independent College	2.4 mi	14 to 25	Secondary
The Pioneers Academy	2.6 mi	11 to 16	Secondary Girls
The Wisdom Academy	2.6 mi	4 to 11	Primary
Birchfield Independent Girls' School	2.7 mi	11 to 17	Secondary Girls

None of these carries an Ofsted grade, and that is not a bad sign. Fee-paying schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, not Ofsted, and the ISI publishes no open data feed. A missing rating here means we cannot see one, never that the school was judged poorly. Fees are not published as open data either, so they are not shown.

The state schools alongside them

The same area holds 81 state primary and 29 state secondary schools, and those do carry Ofsted ratings and exam results. See the full school breakdown for B5 →

Checking a specific address

Distance from a school is measured to a front door, not to a district's centre. Put a postcode in and the report works out the real distance to each school, alongside flood risk, sold prices, crime and the rest.

Common questions

How many private schools are there in B5?

29 fee-paying schools within 3 miles of central B5, Birmingham, from the Department for Education's register. Each one's age range, whether it selects and how full it is are listed on this page.

Do private schools in B5 have Ofsted ratings?

No, and a blank rating is not a bad sign. Fee-paying schools are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, and the ISI publishes no open data feed, so no rating exists for us to show.

Are private schools in B5 selective?

8 of the 29 select on ability at entry, according to their admissions policy on the register. The rest do not, though most fee-paying schools still assess applicants in some way.

Are there single-sex private schools in B5?

13 of the 29 take boys only or girls only. The rest are mixed.

Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools. Read how every figure here is sourced on the methodology page. If something looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.