Barford Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Barford Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Barford Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place for 2026, as was the case at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026, there were 14 first-choice applications for 17 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 30th lowest of 269 Birmingham primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 59% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- It has 24.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Birmingham schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Barford Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 0EF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 409 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are excited about the changes and the new resources that have transformed learning at Barford Primary School.”
- “The school has high ambitions for all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “They carefully overcome any barriers that pupils may have to learning.”
To improve
- “However, some errors in pupils’ work are not identified quickly and this can lead to repeated mistakes, slowing progress.”
- “However, in a small number of subjects, these changes have only recently taken place.”
- “Pupils, therefore, do not have secure knowledge or cannot remember the relevant parts of their previous learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 59% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 14 first-preference applications, 17 offers in total, 14 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Birmingham.
- St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Summerfield Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- City Road Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Foundry 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Brookfields Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St George's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published