Colmore Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Colmore Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Colmore Infant and Nursery 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
- In Reception 2026 every applicant was offered a place, as was the case at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in all 5 earlier Reception years from 2021 to 2025, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 106 first-choice applications for 117 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 77th lowest of 269 Birmingham primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 19% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham is 34.4%.
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
- Colmore Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 6AJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 394 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Being ‘ACE’ sits at the heart of every pupil’s experience at this school.”
- “Even before a child’s first day, the school welcomes them to the Colmore family.”
- “In early years, the school places children’s interests and identities at the centre of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 106 first-preference applications, 117 offers in total, 106 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.
- Colmore Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St Dunstan's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Wheelers Lane Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodthorpe Junior and Infant School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Allens Croft Primary School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Moor Green Primary Academy 0.8 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Kings Heath Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Stirchley Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published