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Burman Infant School

Community school in Solihull, B90 2JW, taking ages 4 to 7, 169 on roll.

No current grade Ofsted
1 mi Admitted from, latest published year
94% Full

Will an address get in?

In the latest published round, the furthest child offered a place lived 1 miles away.

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

The circle is 1 miles, the distance the school admitted from in 2023.

Burman Infant School: 1 miles, 2023 Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School: 4.9 miles, published by Solihull

This is not a catchment area. 1 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 Burman Infant School 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, from Solihull. With two or more, the map can draw any of them.

Source: Solihull, published admission distances

Where Burman Infant School and Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School admitted from 4.9 miles in the latest published year, published by Solihull. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside both published distances, cheapest first by the median of real sales around each district's centre. The cheapest is B90 at £380,000. A district is wide, so check the address itself, not the list.

DistrictAreaFrom Burman Infant SchoolFrom Blossomfield Infant and Nursery SchoolMedian sold price
B90 Solihull 0.7 mi 1.0 mi £380,000 194 sales

Sold prices from HM Land Registry, via each district's area guide. Distances measured from each district's centre to each school's point on the Department for Education register.

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Drop Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School and go back to one school.

If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Solihull, 4 of 220 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (1.8%; 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 Burman Infant School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

The distance as a picture

Burman Infant School catchment area map: the 1 mile admission distance 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 169 pupils in 180 places (94% full)
Local authoritySolihull

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

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

Who goes to Burman Infant School

Girls and boys48.5% girls, 51.5% boys
English as an additional language17.2% of pupils
Free school meals10.1% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

What it costs to live within reach of Burman Infant School

Cheapest district inside the 1 miles: B90, median £380,000.

DistrictAreaFrom the schoolMedian sold price
B90 Solihull 0.7 mi £380,000 194 sales
How to read this

The postcode districts whose centre falls inside the 1 miles the school admitted from in the latest published year, 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 Burman Infant School by bus

Best-served stop: Sansome Road, 0.3 mi away, with 3.2 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 05:25, last 23:03.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
The Colebrook0.2 mi3.01.51.949
The Colebrook0.2 mi3.11.21.949
Oberon Drive0.2 mi1.00.20.0664, 863

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 Burman Infant School against the independent sector? Every fee-paying school around B90: ages, selection, and how full each one is → What it costs to live at B90 2JW, 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 Burman Infant School?

Burman Infant School 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 the latest published year lived 1 miles away, per Solihull.

How close do I need to live to get a place at Burman Infant School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 1 miles was enough in the latest published year. 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 Burman Infant School 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 Solihull school's distance

All Solihull schools with a published admission distance, tightest first →
How school admissions actually work, and what the distance means →

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Admission distance published by Solihull. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.