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Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery

Community school in Birmingham, B19 2EP, taking ages 3 to 11, 458 on roll.

Ungraded Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained
0.42 mi Admitted from, 2023/24
100% Full
77.0% Met the expected standard, 2024/25

Will an address get in?

In 2023/24, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.42 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 0.42 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2023/24.

Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery: 0.42 miles, 2023/24 Brookvale Primary School: 0.66 miles, 2023/24, published by Birmingham

This is not a catchment area. 0.42 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary. The labels on the map are postcode districts whose centre falls inside both circles; each opens the district's guide.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

One published year so far: 2023/24, from Birmingham. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Birmingham, published admission distances, 2023/24

Where Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery and Brookvale Primary School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Brookvale Primary School admitted from 0.66 miles in 2023/24, published by Birmingham. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

No postcode district has its centre inside both distances. The two schools admit from 0.42 and 0.66 miles, and the ground those circles share holds no district centre, which is a fact about where the centres fall rather than about any one address. The map above shows both, and the postcode checker answers for both.

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If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Birmingham, 88 of 813 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (10.8%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Canterbury Cross Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.9 mi 2023/24 0.9 mi
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham Both in reach Primary 2.62 mi 2023/24 0.9 mi
Cromwell Junior and Infant School Both in reach Primary 0.14 mi 2023/24 1.2 mi
Cherry Orchard Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.89 mi 2023/24 1.6 mi
Windsor Olympus Academy Both in reach Secondary 1.93 mi 1.7 mi
Brookvale Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.66 mi 2023/24 2.0 mi

The distance as a picture

Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery catchment area map: the 0.42 mile admission distance, 2023/24 and the postcode districts inside it
Drawn to scale from the published figure, with the districts whose centre falls inside. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 458 pupils in 460 places (100% full)
Local authorityBirmingham

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained
Meeting the expected standard 77.0% in reading, writing and maths (2024/25)
YearMeeting the expected standard
2024/25 77.0%
2023/24 68.0%
2022/23 65.0%

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery

Girls and boys53.3% girls, 46.7% boys
English as an additional language68.8% of pupils
Free school meals63.1% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery

Cheapest district inside the 0.42 miles: B19, median £160,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
B19 Birmingham 0.2 mi £160,000 36 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 0.42 miles the school admitted from in 2023/24, cheapest first, by the median of real sales around each district's centre. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list. Districts without enough recorded sales to rank are not shown.

How this compares across England: what a tight gate costs, school by school.

Source: HM Land Registry sold prices, via each district's area guide

Getting to Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery by bus

Best-served stop: HML Campus, 119 yd away, with 7.7 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 04:47, last 23:59.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
HML Campus119 yd7.74.24.88A, 52
Gunmakers Walk156 yd4.82.82.98C
HML Campus0.1 mi3.11.51.952

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

Weighing Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around B19: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at B19 2EP, by the school: council tax, energy, prices, rent, stamp duty →

Checking the house as well as the school

The full report checks one address against every nearby school, with sold prices, flood risk and crime.

Common questions

What is the catchment area for Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery?

Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in 2023/24 lived 0.42 miles away, per Birmingham.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.42 miles was enough in 2023/24, and at 100% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Birmingham school's distance

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