City Road Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
City Road Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 24 January 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
City Road 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
- 2024/25: 69% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2nd highest among this school and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham that have results.
- In 2024/25, 69% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 7% reached the higher standard in the same subjects (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 had 34 first-choice applications for 37 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 45% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, compared with a middle figure of 59.7% 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
- City Road, Birmingham, B16 0HL
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 456 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 45% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 24 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy being part of the City Road community.”
- “They come to school each day excited about building friendships.”
- “Pupils and staff are very welcoming.”
To improve
- “However, when planning for further improvement, leaders do not always think carefully enough about how they will work towards what they want to achieve.”
- “However, sometimes teachers do not check whether pupils are ready to move on to new learning.”
- “Despite such work, some pupils do not attend school frequently enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 March 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) | 69% | 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, 37 offers in total, 34 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.
- Summerfield Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barford Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- George Dixon Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Foundry 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St George's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published