Prince Albert High School
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–18 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
0.81 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Prince Albert High School is a secondary school in Birmingham for ages 11–18 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 February 2024. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Prince Albert High 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 0.81 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.81 miles away, the 8th shortest of 40 Birmingham secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The Year 7 last distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 and 2022, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 5 years.
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 193 first-choice applications for 177 offers; 143 offers went to first-choice families and 50 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 43.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Birmingham is 56.9%.
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
- 115 Holford Drive, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 2TU
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 950 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 43.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 February 2024
Strengths
- “Prince Albert High is a school where pupils and staff alike embody the school’s values of integrity, excellence and service.”
- “An example of this is how pupils clear up the dining hall, knowing the importance of not leaving a mess for others.”
- “There is a culture of mutual respect and care for each other that is exceptional.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, teachers do not help pupils to understand, sufficiently well, the key subject-specific skills they are developing that will help them be successful in the future.”
- “However, sometimes there are not enough planned opportunities for pupils to engage in discussion to deepen their understanding and strengthen their oracy skills in lessons.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 193 first-preference applications, 177 offers in total, 143 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Birmingham.
- Eden Boys' School, Birmingham 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Broadway Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- E-ACT North Birmingham Academy 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- King Edward VI Aston School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stockland Green School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holte School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Arena Academy 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published