Lift Percy Shurmer
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.45 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lift Percy Shurmer is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 24 May 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Lift Percy Shurmer 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 | 0.45 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.45 miles away, the 15th shortest of 58 Birmingham primary schools with a published last distance.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 1 of the 6 years with a published outcome; the 2026 Reception last distance was about the same as in 2025.
- For Reception in 2026, 80 first-choice applications came for 60 offers: 58 offers went to first-choice families and 22 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 86% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Longmore Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 9ED
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 459 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 70.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 24 May 2023
Strengths
- “Percy Shurmer Academy is a very special place where every child has an exceptional learning experience.”
- “Leaders are relentless in their work to ensure that all pupils attend school daily and on time and pupils enjoy attending.”
- “Parents are overwhelmingly positive about the quality of education their children receive.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 July 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) | 86% | 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: 80 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 58 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.
- Chandos Primary School 0.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Heath Mount Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ark Tindal Primary Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Woodview 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ Church CofE Controlled Primary School and Nursery 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published