St Paul's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · 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 🔒
St Paul's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
St Paul'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 | 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
- 65.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham is 59.6%.
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, as at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- There were 20 first-choice applications for 20 Reception offers in 2026, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 15% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Sisefield Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B38 9JB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 169 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 65.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 10 February 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils at St Paul’s belong to a friendly and welcoming school.”
- “The staff team make sure each pupil and their family feel supported, providing pupils with care and a happy place to learn and play.”
- “Every pupil is valued as an individual and staff know them well.”
To improve
- “However, as this is still at an early stage, it has not yet had an impact on all pupils’ outcomes in the Year 1 phonics test, which are below the national average.”
- “The school is in the process of developing some aspects of middle leadership to ensure consistently high standards of teaching across the curriculum.”
- “The school does not consistently use information about how well individual pupils learn in some foundation subjects to evaluate the performance of different groups.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 April 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) | 65% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 20 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.
- Kings Norton Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Broadmeadow Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hawkesley Church Primary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bells Farm Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Fairway Primary Academy 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Broadmeadow Infant School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Oaks Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wychall Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published