Stirchley Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.59 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stirchley Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 January 2025. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Stirchley 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 | 0.59 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
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.59 miles away, further from the school than in 2025 and nearer than in 2023.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 drew 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
- 34.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 19.8% 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
- Pershore Road, Stirchley, Birmingham, B30 2JL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 224 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils agree unanimously that Stirchley Primary School is an ‘amazing’ school.”
- “They learn lots of new and exciting things.”
- “Each day, pupils try their best to live the school’s ‘ACORN’ values.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes teachers do not check carefully enough how well pupils learn in lessons.”
- “This means, at times, key misconceptions and errors are not addressed quickly enough or go unchecked.”
- “Some pupils do not attend school as regularly as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 January 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) | 67% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- Cotteridge Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Allens Croft Primary School 0.5 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bournville Village Primary 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Raddlebarn Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Edward's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Francis Church of England Aided Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Colmore Infant and Nursery School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published