Water Mill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.64 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Water Mill Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (community school). Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Water Mill 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 | 0.64 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.64 miles away, 25th shortest of the 58 Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families (6%) were not offered a place.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 5 of the 6 years with a published outcome.
- In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Water Mill Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6TS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 205 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 9 June 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils are articulate, confident and celebrated at Water Mill Primary School.”
- “Pupils who join the school speaking little or no English learn English quickly and as a priority.”
- “As a result, they make excellent progress from their starting points.”
To improve
- “However, in other subjects, while they learn the basics, they achieve less well.”
- “This is reflected in the quality of the work they produce.”
- “Some pupils are capable of learning more.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 July 2026 (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) | 75% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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 Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tiverton Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Peters CofE Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Rose of Lima Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Paganel Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Harborne Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Jervoise School 1.0 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published