Marston Green Infant Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Birmingham, Solihull
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marston Green Infant Academy is a primary school in Birmingham, Solihull for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 15 January 2025. Solihull has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Marston Green Infant 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 |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, but places ran out in 7 of the 8 earlier years, with the last distance swinging most sharply from 2021 to 2022.
- Reception 2026 had 69 first-choice applications for 73 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Reception 2026, 25 of the 128 applications (20%) came from families living outside Solihull, and 11 offers went to them.
- Free school meal eligibility is 19.6% of pupils, against a middle figure of 52.5% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Solihull.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Solihull schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Elm Farm Avenue, Marston Green, Birmingham, B37 7AA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Solihull
- Pupils on roll
- 326 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 15 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of this welcoming and vibrant school.”
- “They are taught that they can achieve anything, regardless of their background.”
- “Expectations of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are high.”
To improve
- “Occasionally, the learning activities are not sharply focused on the most important content that pupils need to know.”
- “When this happens, pupils do not learn as well as they could.”
- “Work to improve pupils’ writing, and in particular pupils’ basic writing knowledge, is in the early stages, and it is too soon to see the full impact.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 69 first-preference applications, 73 offers in total, 69 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 Solihull.
- Marston Green Junior School 0.1 mi Not judged
- Coleshill Heath School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fordbridge Community Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Windy Arbor Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Valley Primary 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published