Mapledene Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Mapledene Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 16 November 2022. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Mapledene 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 Reception applicant in 2026 was offered a place, as at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Although every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, a last distance was published in 1 of the 5 earlier years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026: 38 first-choice applications for 38 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Mapledene Road, Mapledene Road, Birmingham, Uk, Birmingham, B26 3XE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 293 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 16 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at Mapledene Primary School.”
- “They say it is like being part of a family.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for all pupils.”
To improve
- “However, pupils do not learn as well as they should in a small number of subjects.”
- “Leaders have not ensured that the detailed knowledge that pupils need to know has been clearly identified.”
- “This means that teachers are sometimes unsure about what knowledge they need to teach and when to teach it.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 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) | 63% | 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: 38 first-preference applications, 38 offers in total, 38 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.
- Elms Farm Community Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanville Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior 1.2 mi Standards maintained
- Lyndon Green Infant School 1.2 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lyndon Green Junior School 1.2 mi Good
- The Shirestone Academy 1.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published