Highters Heath Community School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · 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 🔒
Highters Heath Community School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Highters Heath Community 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 its pupils, 61.7% are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham is 48.8%.
- Reception 2026 drew 15 first-choice applications for 18 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer and the 35th lowest of 269 Birmingham primary schools.
- Every applicant for Reception in 2026 was offered a place, including every first-choice family, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Highters Heath Lane, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 4LY
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 167 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 61.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 11 November 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy learning at Highters Heath Community School.”
- “They love their school and understand why it is important to attend regularly.”
- “Children get off to a great start in the early years, where they work well together and cooperate happily to learn new things.”
To improve
- “However, pupils' outcomes in national tests for the higher standard are significantly lower.”
- “However, these checks are not consistently used well to identify when pupils who have mastered a skill are ready to move on.”
- “This means, on occasion, that these pupils are not provided with activities that deepen their learning.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 January 2026 (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) | 65% | 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: 15 first-preference applications, 18 offers in total, 15 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.
- Grendon Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Yardley Wood Community Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Alban's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hollywood Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Billesley Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Jude's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodthorpe Junior and Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published