How far Birmingham primary schools admitted from
How far away the last child offered a place lived, for 52 Birmingham primary schools, from the council's own figures. Tightest first.
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Primary schools only, from the 2023/24 round. Secondary distances are not on this page.
Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close on 15 January 2027, with offers on 16 April 2027.
The tightest is Cromwell Junior and Infant School at 0.14 miles in 2023/24; the most far-reaching, Mere Green Primary School, admitted from 8.56 miles.
Primary schools
| School | Ofsted | Admitted from | Round | How full |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cromwell Junior and Infant School Birmingham | No current grade | 0.14 mi | 2023/24 | 101% |
| The Olive School, Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained | 0.16 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Grendon Primary School Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, December 2024: standards maintained | 0.22 mi | 2023/24 | 79% |
| The Shirestone Academy Birmingham | Outstanding | 0.29 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| The Orchards Primary Academy Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained | 0.33 mi | 2023/24 | 81% |
| Chilcote Primary School Birmingham | No current grade | 0.35 mi | 2023/24 | 103% |
| Nelson Mandela School Birmingham | Good | 0.36 mi | 2023/24 | 87% |
| Colebourne Primary School Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained | 0.37 mi | 2023/24 | 102% |
| West Heath Primary School Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, April 2025: standards maintained | 0.39 mi | 2023/24 | 97% |
| Acocks Green Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.42 mi | 2023/24 | 115% |
| Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, November 2024: standards maintained | 0.42 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Arden Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.43 mi | 2023/24 | 98% |
| Merritts Brook Primary E-ACT Academy Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, February 2025: improved significantly | 0.43 mi | 2023/24 | 95% |
| Penns Primary School Sutton Coldfield | Report card | 0.45 mi | 2023/24 | 97% |
| Four Oaks Primary School Sutton Coldfield | No current grade | 0.48 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Court Farm Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.51 mi | 2023/24 | 98% |
| Topcliffe Primary School Birmingham | No current grade | 0.51 mi | 2023/24 | 117% |
| Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy Birmingham | Good | 0.54 mi | 2023/24 | 105% |
| Bournville Village Primary Birmingham | Good | 0.57 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Shaw Hill Primary School Birmingham | Outstanding | 0.58 mi | 2023/24 | 113% |
| Woodhouse Primary Academy Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, April 2025: standards maintained | 0.6 mi | 2023/24 | 102% |
| Cofton Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.61 mi | 2023/24 | 97% |
| Tame Valley Academy Birmingham | Good | 0.61 mi | 2023/24 | 97% |
| Featherstone Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.65 mi | 2023/24 | 99% |
| Brookvale Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.66 mi | 2023/24 | 98% |
| Little Sutton Primary School Sutton Coldfield | Outstanding | 0.67 mi | 2023/24 | 103% |
| Firs Primary School Birmingham | Report card | 0.68 mi | 2023/24 | 66% |
| Cherry Orchard Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.89 mi | 2023/24 | 90% |
| Osborne Primary School Birmingham | Good | 0.89 mi | 2023/24 | 98% |
| Canterbury Cross Primary School Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, June 2025: improved significantly | 0.9 mi | 2023/24 | 115% |
| Whitehouse Common Primary School Sutton Coldfield | Good | 0.9 mi | 2023/24 | 93% |
| Maney Hill Primary School Sutton Coldfield | Good | 0.95 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Jervoise School Birmingham | Good | 1.01 mi | 2023/24 | 94% |
| Moor Hall Primary School Sutton Coldfield | No current grade | 1.04 mi | 2023/24 | 102% |
| Moor Green Primary Academy Birmingham | Outstanding | 1.05 mi | 2023/24 | 107% |
| Chad Vale Primary School Birmingham | Good | 1.16 mi | 2023/24 | 99% |
| Dorrington Academy Birmingham | Report card | 1.16 mi | 2023/24 | 92% |
| Marsh Hill Primary School Birmingham | Good | 1.16 mi | 2023/24 | 99% |
| Sutton Park Primary Sutton Coldfield | Good | 1.16 mi | 2023/24 | 71% |
| Walmley Infant School Sutton Coldfield | Good | 1.17 mi | 2023/24 | 117% |
| Billesley Primary School Birmingham | Ungraded inspection, June 2025: standards maintained | 1.2 mi | 2023/24 | 111% |
| Glenmead Primary School Birmingham | Good | 1.29 mi | 2023/24 | 63% |
| Colmore Infant and Nursery School Birmingham | Outstanding | 1.47 mi | 2023/24 | 109% |
| Boldmere Infant School and Nursery Sutton Coldfield | Good | 1.57 mi | 2023/24 | 114% |
| Wylde Green Primary School Sutton Coldfield | Ungraded inspection, January 2025: improved significantly | 1.58 mi | 2023/24 | 101% |
| Yardley Primary School Birmingham | Good | 1.61 mi | 2023/24 | 99% |
| Hawthorn Primary School Birmingham | Good | 1.74 mi | 2023/24 | 82% |
| The Olive School, Small Heath Birmingham | Outstanding | 1.85 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Al-Furqan Primary School Birmingham | Good | 2.59 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
| Nishkam Primary School Birmingham | No current grade | 2.62 mi | 2023/24 | 101% |
| Minworth Junior and Infant School SUTTON COLDFIELD | Good | 4.71 mi | 2023/24 | 97% |
| Mere Green Primary School Sutton Coldfield | No current grade | 8.56 mi | 2023/24 | 100% |
If a place is refused
You can appeal. In 2025, 88 of 813 secondary appeals heard here were allowed (10.8%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together.
How to read this
Every refusal carries a right of appeal to an independent panel. In Birmingham, panels heard 813 appeals for secondary places in the 2025 round and allowed 88 of them, 10.8%, against 19.9% across England. These are the council's figures for all its schools together: appeals are not published school by school, so no one can tell you the rate for one named school, and this page will not pretend to.
An infant class appeal, for reception to year 2, can only be allowed on narrow legal grounds, which is why its share is a fraction of the others.
| Appeals in 2025 | Lodged | Heard | Allowed | Share allowed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secondary | 1,099 | 813 | 88 | 10.8% |
| Primary | 382 | 241 | 24 | 10.0% |
| Primary (infant classes) | 222 | 148 | 9 | 6.1% |
How every council compares, and what the figures are and are not.
The entrance test here
Birmingham has grammar schools, so a place depends on an entrance test as well as on where you live. The test is the West Midlands Grammar Schools entrance test, set by GL Assessment. For entry in September 2027 it was sat on September 2026, with registration closing on 26 June 2026.
What is in the papers, and where this came from, beside every other selective area in England.
How often children here are out of school
Primary schools here missed 5.9% of sessions in 2024/25 (England 5.2%), and 16.7% of pupils were persistently absent (England 13.0%).
How to read this
In Birmingham, 5.9% of primary school sessions were missed in 2024/25, about the same as the 5.2% across England. That is days missed. The second figure is children: 16.7% of primary pupils here were persistently absent, meaning they missed a tenth or more of their sessions, higher than England's 13.0%.
| 2024/25 | Sessions missed | England | Persistently absent | England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | 5.9% | 5.2% | 16.7% | 13.0% |
| Secondary | 8.1% | 8.4% | 24.8% | 23.4% |
What the figures mean
Persistently absent means missing a tenth or more of their sessions, for any reason, authorised or not. A council's rate is moved by things no school controls, term-time holidays and a bad winter among them, so read it as the weather around the schools rather than a mark against them. Higher or lower is said only where the two rates differ by at least 1 percentage point.
These are Birmingham's figures for all its schools together. The Department for Education publishes absence by council, not school by school, so no one can give you the rate for one named school from this release. Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk. Read on 1 October 2026.
Source: DfE pupil absence in schools in England, by council, not school by school
Reading the numbers
These are distances, not catchment areas, and they move every year.
How to read this
For every oversubscribed school, Birmingham publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield. The address on the deadline is the one the council uses.
These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Birmingham measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →
Checking an address against these
Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.
Admission distances published by Birmingham. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.