Cranmore Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Solihull
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.65 miles
Published by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cranmore Infant School is a primary school in Solihull for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 March 2022. Solihull has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Cranmore Infant 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 | 0.65 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 |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
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 0.65 miles from the school, the 5th shortest of 19 Solihull primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2018, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 31 first-choice applications for 31 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- The school has 16.5 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Solihull is 22.3.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Solihull schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Northland Road, Shirley, Solihull, B90 4SA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Solihull
- Pupils on roll
- 182 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to Cranmore Infant School.”
- “They describe it as a happy, kind and safe place to learn.”
- “Pupils confidently discuss their enjoyment of learning.”
To improve
- “A small minority of pupils are severely or persistently absent.”
- “At times, the quality of work some pupils produce in the wider curriculum is less consistent than in English and mathematics.”
- “A small minority of pupils do not attend often enough, including some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 31 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 Solihull.
- Widney Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- Shirley Heath Junior School 0.6 mi Not judged
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Sharmans Cross Junior School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Woodlands Infant School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St James 1.1 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published