Story Wood School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.73 miles
Published by Birmingham City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2021–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Story Wood School is a primary school in Birmingham for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 8 July 2025. Birmingham has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2021 to 2026 entry.
Story Wood 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 | 0.73 mi |
| 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
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.73 miles, the 29th longest of 58 Birmingham primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 0.73 miles.
- The last distance has swung sharply between years; in 2026 it was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2021.
- There were 34 first-choice applications for 30 Reception offers in 2026; 29 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- At Story Wood, 47.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 55.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Birmingham.
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
- Hastings Road, Perry Common, Birmingham, B23 5AJ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Birmingham
- Pupils on roll
- 225 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 47.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 8 July 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils speak with pride about their school and embrace the values of respect, responsibility and resilience that shape their daily experiences.”
- “Staff set high expectations of pupils’ behaviour which they rise to with smiles on their faces.”
- “Pupils have exceptionally positive attitudes to their learning, strive to work hard and behave really positively.”
To improve
- “However, in some wider curriculum subjects, the school has not ensured that pupils have sufficient opportunities to consider how what they have studied previously connects to what they are currently learning.”
- “This means that pupils’ understanding across the wider curriculum lacks some depth and makes it harder for pupils to recall prior learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- Hawthorn Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Margaret Mary RC Junior and Infant School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Warren Farm Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ The King Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oasis Academy Short Heath 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Twickenham Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingsthorne Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Court Farm Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published