St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 18 May 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
St Joseph's Catholic 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 | Not published |
| 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
- 90% 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.
- In 2024/25, 27% reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%).
- In 2026, Reception had 35 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 16.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 32% 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
- Selly Oak Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B30 1HN
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 May 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders are ambitious and want the best for each pupil.”
- “They have set high expectations to which pupils respond positively.”
- “Pupils like school and attend regularly.”
To improve
- “However, teachers do not always check pupils’ learning carefully enough.”
- “This means that staff do not consistently pick up and address any common spelling errors or misconceptions.”
- “Staff do not always know whether pupils have learned what was planned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 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) | 90% | 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: 35 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- St Francis Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cotteridge Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bournville Village Primary 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Stirchley Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Allens Croft Primary School 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Kings Norton Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Raddlebarn Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Wychall Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published