Starbank School
All-through · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–16 · 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 🔒
Starbank School is an all-through school in Birmingham for ages 3–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 June 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Starbank 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
- In 2026, Reception had 104 first-choice applications for 122 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, and every applicant was offered a place.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 18 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 2,161 pupils on roll, and 46.7% of pupils 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
- Hob Moor Road, Birmingham, B10 9BT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 3–16
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 2,161 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 46.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 June 2023
Strengths
- “Across both the primary and secondary phase, pupils embody the STAR values of ‘Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect’.”
- “A culture of high expectations permeates throughout the school.”
- “Leaders, alongside staff, work tenaciously to ensure that pupils are successful.”
To improve
- “Leaders recognise that the next stage of their journey is to develop a cohesive curriculum, which connects the primary and secondary phase together.”
- “However, on occasion, some pupils lack a depth of understanding of the topics they are studying and struggle to link ideas together.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 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) | 78% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 62% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 49 | 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: 104 first-preference applications, 122 offers in total, 104 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.
- Waverley School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Hamd House School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Ark Victoria Academy 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Darul Uloom Islamic High School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Greenfields Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Green Heath School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- R.Y.A.N Education Academy Vocational Centre 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- East Birmingham Network Academy 1.3 mi Some aspects not as strong