Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–7 · 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 🔒
Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 2–7 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 October 2022. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants 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
- Reception 2026 entry: 59 first-choice applications for 63 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- 52.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 60.6% across 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
- Blakenhale Road, Garrett's Green, Birmingham, B33 0XD
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 246 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 October 2022
Strengths
- “Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants is a large school with a caring ethos.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to the school because leaders and staff have created a safe, pleasant and stimulating environment for them.”
- “The school motto, ‘healthy bodies, healthy minds, promising future’, reflects leaders’ high expectations for all the pupils at the school.”
To improve
- “There has been a deterioration of the standard of pupils’ handwriting following the COVID-19 disruption.”
- “The presentation of work in pupils’ books in key stage 1 is often poor.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 63 offers in total, 59 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.
- Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior 0.1 mi Standards maintained
- Gossey Lane Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lift Lea Forest 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Shirestone Academy 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- The Oval School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Elms Farm Community Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Stanville Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published