Cherry Orchard 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 🔒
Cherry Orchard Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 March 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Cherry Orchard 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
- 26.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 52.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham.
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, though places ran out, with a last distance published, in 3 of the 5 earlier Reception years.
- In 2024/25, 73% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure was the 2nd highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 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
- Cherry Orchard Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, B20 2LB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 440 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Cherry Orchard are proud of their school and are happy to be there.”
- “They have positive relationships with staff and work well with their peers.”
- “Pupils embrace differences and show respect for each other.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes teachers do not ensure that children form letters and numbers with care.”
- “In addition, in key stages 1 and 2, sometimes teachers do not have high enough expectations of pupils’ letter formation and presentation.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not form their letters correctly and their work is difficult to read.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 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) | 73% | 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: 50 first-preference applications, 53 offers in total, 50 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 Teresa's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Marys C of E Primary and Nursery, Academy, Handsworth 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Dorrington Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Grestone Academy 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy (Handsworth) 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Clare's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Westminster Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Rookery School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published