Topcliffe Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.44 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Topcliffe Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 8 April 2025. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Topcliffe 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 | 0.44 mi |
| 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.44 miles from the school, further than in 2025 and about the same as in 2021.
- For Reception 2026 there were 34 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 20% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 12.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.4 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
- Hawkinge Drive, Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 6BS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 246 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 72.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 8 April 2025
Strengths
- “The school’s ‘HARRI’ values, to be healthy, aspirational, respectful, resilient and independent, underpin everything that happens at Topcliffe Primary School.”
- “Pupils learn and understand these values, which make a positive difference to their lives.”
- “Topcliffe is a friendly school.”
To improve
- “Where the curriculum for subjects is less well considered, teachers’ subject knowledge and the selection of activities to support learning are less effective.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not build their knowledge over time as well as they could.”
- “Attendance has historically been low.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 2025 (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) | 20% | 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: 34 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 Gerard's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chivenor Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pegasus Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gunter Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Paget Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Walmley Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Walmley Junior School 1.0 mi Not judged
- St Wilfrid's Catholic Junior and Infant School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published