Birdlip Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.12 miles
Published by Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2012–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Birdlip Primary School is a primary school in Gloucester, Gloucestershire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 30 November 2022. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.
Birdlip 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 | 3.12 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 7 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 the last Reception child offered a place lived 3.12 miles away, 19th longest of 88 Gloucestershire primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and than in 2012, and it swung sharply between years.
- Reception 2026 had 16 first-choice applications for 15 offers; 15 offers went to first-choice families and 1 first-choice family was not offered a place.
- 3.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire is 19%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Birdlip, Gloucester, GL4 8JH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 102 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 30 November 2022
Strengths
- “Birdlip Primary School is a welcoming community.”
- “Leaders and staff provide a high level of nurture in this safe and caring school.”
- “The values of ‘respect, resilience and kindness’ are deeply embedded.”
To improve
- “However, where subjects are less well developed, such as geography, some pupils have gaps in their knowledge.”
- “They struggle to remember what they have learned before to help them with new learning.”
- “Nonetheless, the curriculum is not adapted well enough for some pupils with SEND.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 January 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) | 80% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 15 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 Gloucestershire.
- Castle Hill Primary School 2.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Coberley Church of England Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Shurdington Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lift Brockworth 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Cranham Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sheepscombe Primary School 3.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Miserden Church of England Primary School 3.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Coopers Edge School 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
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