Calshot 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 🔒
Calshot 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 15 February 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Calshot 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
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, but places ran out (a last distance was published) in 1 of the 5 earlier years.
- Reception 2026 had 41 first-choice applications for 45 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In Reception 2026, 15 of the 119 applications (13%) came from families living outside Birmingham, and 4 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%).
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
- Calshot Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B42 2BY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 436 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 15 February 2023
Strengths
- “Everyone at Calshot Primary School is ‘aiming high’ in all aspects of school life.”
- “Staff, pupils and parents share leaders’ high expectations.”
- “Pupils are positive about their learning and work hard in their lessons.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the link between what children learn in the early years and how this is built on in key stage 1 is not clearly set out.”
- “However, leaders have not fully ensured that the learning in some subjects in key stage 1 builds on what children know and understand by the end of Reception.”
- “However, some of the support is not as effective as it could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 April 2023 (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) | 66% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 41 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.
- Beeches Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barr View Primary & Nursery Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mark's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Glenmead Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Dorrington Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Greenholm Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Maryvale Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sundridge Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published