Fairway Primary Academy
Primary · Academy converter · 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 🔒
Fairway Primary Academy is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 9 April 2024. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Fairway Primary Academy 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 12 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham that have results.
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
- Muirfield Gardens, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B38 8XQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 164 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 53.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 9 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school and highly value their teachers and leaders.”
- “They attend regularly and enjoy being part of the school community.”
- “Pupils’ behaviour is generally calm, focused and welcoming.”
To improve
- “Pupils gain the important knowledge and skills they need in English and mathematics, although some pupils' handwriting is not consistently well formed.”
- “However, for some pupils, the quality of work they produce sometimes lacks consistency, when teachers' expectations are not high enough.”
- “However, the teaching of handwriting is more variable in quality.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 September 2026 (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) | 69% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 12 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.
- Wychall Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- West Heath Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hawkesley Church Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kings Norton Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John Fisher Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Paul's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Laurence Church Infant School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Laurence Church Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade