Beeches Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Beeches Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 June 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Beeches 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 place for Reception in 2026, as also happened at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in 2 of the 5 earlier Reception years, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 4th lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham that have results.
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
- Beeches Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B42 2PY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 361 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 June 2023
Strengths
- “Beeches Junior School is a happy, welcoming place.”
- “They work hard and achieve well.”
- “Pupils feel safe, valued and at ease in school.”
To improve
- “Some staff do not yet have the level of expertise needed to teach phonics effectively.”
- “In a small number of cases, this slows down the rate at which pupils become fluent readers.”
- “However, in some lessons, pupils with SEND do not have access to resources and strategies that help them to learn and build their independence.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 July 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) | 63% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Birmingham.
- Glenmead Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Calshot Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Greenholm Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Maryvale Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mark's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dorrington Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kingsthorne Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published