Arden Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
17.30 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Arden 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 26 June 2024. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Arden 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 | 17.30 mi |
| 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
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 17.30 miles, the longest of the 58 Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 0.73 miles.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2022, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 81 first-choice applications for 90 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 78% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd highest 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
- Baker Street, Sparkhill, Birmingham, B11 4SF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 692 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 57.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils, their parents and carers appreciate all that Arden Primary School offers them.”
- “The motto of ‘every child, every opportunity’ underpins everything the school does.”
- “Those efforts go beyond the school day to include a wide range of experiences to develop character and broaden pupils’ awareness of the world.”
To improve
- “However, not all pupils take full advantage of the many opportunities that the school offers.”
- “Persistent absence is high and the school has not yet established effective strategies to reduce it.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 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) | 78% | 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: 81 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 81 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.
- Greet Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- English Martyrs' Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's CofE Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Conway Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Nelson Mandela School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Lift Montgomery 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Anderton Park Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Clifton Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published