St Alban's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Alban's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided 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.
St Alban's Catholic 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 | Not published |
| 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
- 33.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 57.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham.
- For Reception 2026 there were 35 first-choice applications for 31 offers; 31 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (11%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 77% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 23.5 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 19.2 across 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
- Broad Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 5AL
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 207 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 26 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and safe and attend regularly.”
- “They know that staff care deeply about their physical and mental health and well-being.”
- “Pupils know they can always seek help from an adult if they ever have a problem.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, pupils have fewer opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge they need because the curriculum is less well established.”
- “However, on occasion, assessment checks do not fully capture how well pupils understand and remember the key concepts.”
- “Some pupils are unable to retrieve and apply their knowledge to future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 July 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) | 77% | 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, 31 offers in total, 31 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.
- Grendon Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Woodthorpe Junior and Infant School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Jude's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Highters Heath Community School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Oaks Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broadmeadow Infant School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hollywood Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wheelers Lane Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published