St Chad's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
St Chad's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 March 2023. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
St Chad's 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 | 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
- Of pupils here, 85.6% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham is 64.5%.
- Reception 2026 drew 27 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 66% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 197 of the 275 other Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
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
- Hospital Street, Newtown, Birmingham, B19 3XD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 201 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 85.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 March 2023
Strengths
- “St Chad’s Catholic Primary is a school where all pupils are welcomed with open arms.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are highly positive.”
- “Pupils are well cared for and nurtured.”
To improve
- “The curriculum is broad, but some subjects are not organised as well as they could be.”
- “However, pupils do not achieve as well in all subjects.”
- “This is because, in some subjects, leaders have not thought carefully enough about how important subject content should be sequenced.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 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) | 66% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 27 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 George's Church of England Academy, Newtown 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Chilwell Croft Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lozells Junior and Infant School and Nursery 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Anglesey Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Francis Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brookfields Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Aston Tower Community Primary School 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Mansfield Green E-ACT Academy 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published