Ark Victoria Academy
All-through · Free schools · Ages 3–18 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2026: 1.22 mi
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ark Victoria Academy is an all-through school in Birmingham for ages 3–18 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Improved significantly, from the inspection on 23 October 2024. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2021 to 2026 entry.
Ark Victoria 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 |
| Year 7 2026 | 1.22 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 23 October 2024, was that the school had improved significantly; its previous graded outcome was Good on 26 March 2019.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, when there were 58 first-choice applications for 62 offers.
- At Year 7 entry in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.22 miles from the school.
- Of pupils on roll, 67.1% are eligible for free school meals.
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
- Talbot Way, Small Heath, Birmingham, B10 0HJ
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 3–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 1,519 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 67.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Improved significantly Inspected 23 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at all stages of Ark Victoria Academy.”
- “This is because this is a school which lives out its values in full for the benefit of the children in nursery to the pupils in Year 11.”
- “As one pupil, whose comment was typical of many, said to inspectors, ‘Ark Victoria is a holistic and unique experience of ambition, resilience and kindness.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 2024 (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) | 85% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 45% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.4 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-preference applications, 62 offers in total, 58 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 50 first-preference applications, 72 offers in total, 42 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Birmingham.
- Darul Uloom Islamic High School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Jamia Islamia Birmingham 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Al-Ameen Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Greenfields Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Starbank School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Green Heath School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hamd House School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hazrat Khadijatul Kubra Girls School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade