St John Fisher Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 September 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
St John Fisher 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 | Not published |
| 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
- Reception 2026 had 48 first-choice applications for 30 offers, 1.6 first choices per offer, the 6th highest of 269 Birmingham primary schools.
- In Reception 2026, 30 offers went to first-choice families and 18 first-choice families (38%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham that have results.
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
- Alvechurch Road, West Heath, Birmingham, B31 3PN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 33.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils thoroughly enjoy attending St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, where they say, ‘we love, learn and pray as one family’.”
- “Warm, respectful relationships are evident between adults and pupils.”
- “Pupils behave well in lessons and around school.”
To improve
- “In a very small number of subjects, the content pupils are to learn has not been identified as precisely.”
- “This means that teachers are not always sure which content to emphasise and revisit so that pupils can build in subsequent learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 6 October 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) | 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: 48 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.
- Cofton Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- West Heath Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Albert Bradbeer Primary Academy 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Turves Green Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fairway Primary Academy 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Hawkesley Church Primary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wychall Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Meadows Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published