Selly Park Girls' School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
4.51 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Selly Park Girls' School is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 November 2022. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Selly Park Girls' 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 4.51 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 4.51 miles from the school, the 3rd longest of 40 Birmingham secondary schools with a published last distance.
- Year 7 last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was further from the school than in 2021.
- Year 7 2026 had 90 first-choice applications for 159 offers, with 71 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 52.4 (England 46).
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
- 5 Selly Park Road, Selly Park, Birmingham, B29 7PH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 803 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 58.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 November 2022
Strengths
- “Many pupils thrive both academically and socially at this school.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for what they want pupils to achieve and for pupils’ behaviour.”
- “Pupils respond positively to the high bar that staff set across many areas of school life.”
To improve
- “However, on a few occasions, assessment strategies in key stage 3 are not used consistently to help pupils improve their understanding.”
- “However, some staff in Ofsted’s survey stated that there is increased workload around new systems that are not always fully considered by leaders.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 February 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 47% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 52.4 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 90 first-preference applications, 159 offers in total, 88 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Birmingham.
- King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Queensbridge School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Bishop Challoner Catholic College 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The University of Birmingham School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kings Norton Girls' School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wheelers Lane Technology College 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published