Yardley Wood Community 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 🔒
Yardley Wood Community Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 March 2024. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Yardley Wood Community 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
- 59.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 37.6% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham.
- For Reception 2026 there were 43 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 37% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure was the 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
- School Road, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, B14 4ER
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 442 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 59.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 March 2024
Strengths
- “Everyone is valued at Yardley Wood Community Primary School.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are warm and positive.”
- “Pupils know who to talk to if they are worried.”
To improve
- “However, the good-quality provision in place is not yet reflected in published results.”
- “However, leaders’ checks on pupils’ learning were not as precise as they should have been last year.”
- “This means that gaps in pupils’ learning were not picked up and addressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 May 2024 (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) | 37% | 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: 43 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 43 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.
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Highters Heath Community School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Billesley Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Chilcote Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Grendon Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hollywood Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published