Penns Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.81 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Penns Primary School is a primary school in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham for ages 5–11 (community school). Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Penns 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 | 0.81 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.81 miles from the school, the 21st longest of 58 Birmingham primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 35 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 84% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 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
- Berwood Road, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1BS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 203 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 13 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at Penns Primary are rightly proud of their school.”
- “A warm, supportive environment radiates throughout the school.”
- “Pupils are encouraged to do their best and they rise to this challenge.”
To improve
- “However, leaders are continuing to refine the curriculum to ensure learning is maximised in all subjects all of the time.”
- “As a result, pupils' ability to connect knowledge across different areas of the curriculum is not as consistently as effective as it could be.”
- “However, the outdoors area focuses too heavily on children’s physical development.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 April 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) | 84% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Yenton Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Wylde Green Primary School 0.7 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Paget Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Abbey Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Gunter Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Osborne Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Saint Barnabas Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Deanery Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published