Bordesley Green 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 🔒
Bordesley Green Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 March 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Bordesley Green 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.
- For Reception 2026 there were 62 first-choice applications for 67 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 46% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Marchmont Road, Birmingham, B9 5XX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 639 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 55.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this happy and welcoming school.”
- “They say, 'It doesn't matter how different we are - we are all friends here'.”
- “Pupils feel safe and well cared for.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, teachers do not deliver the curriculum as consistently as leaders would like.”
- “However, in some cases, teachers do not plan activities carefully enough.”
- “For example, some tasks do not help pupils to recall and build upon prior learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 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) | 46% | 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: 62 first-preference applications, 67 offers in total, 62 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.
- Alston Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Marlborough Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Parkfield Community School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Shaw Hill Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- The Rosary Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Benedict's Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Somerville Primary (NC) School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published