Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
near Balsall Common, CV7 7BJ · Solihull local authority
Balsall Common’s School Grade C+ better than 41% of towns in England
What stands out about Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- Its own letter, A: Key Stage 2 results better than 87% of England’s primary schools
- 77% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15 points above England’s schools
- 8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, September 2022 (shown, not graded)
- Outside any built-up area: listed with Balsall Common, the nearest town
- 71% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (27 of 38)
- Homes in its postcode sector (CV7 7) sold for a median £448,000; Balsall Common’s is £455,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 77%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 87% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Solihull avg 67%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 109 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 10 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School?
71% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (10), 2020 (5), 2021 (11), 2022 (15), 2023 (4), 2024 (5), 2025 (8), 2026 (11). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. The school’s governing body sets the admissions rules. Apply through Solihull council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
71% got their first choice
Balsall Common and Solihull, side by side
2023–2025All 47 graded primaries in Solihull. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Balsall Common’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smith's Wood Primary Academy | A+ | 52% | 84% |
| Oak Cottage Primary School | A+ | 5% | 84% |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | A | 32% | 81% |
| St Augustine's Catholic Primary School | A | 7% | 80% |
| Widney Junior School | A | 17% | 77% |
| Monkspath Junior and Infant School | A | 9% | 77% |
| Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | A | 8% | 77% |
| Knowle Church of England Primary Academy | A | 8% | 76% |
| Dorridge Primary School | A− | 5% | 75% |
| St Patricks Church of England Primary Academy | A− | 11% | 74% |
| Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School | A− | 14% | 74% |
| Lady Katherine Leveson Church of England Primary School | A− | 31% | 73% |
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School | A− | 32% | 73% |
| Sharmans Cross Junior School | A− | 12% | 72% |
| St Alphege Church of England Junior School | A− | 10% | 72% |
| Bentley Heath Church of England Primary School | A− | 10% | 72% |
| Dickens Heath Community Primary School | A− | 14% | 71% |
| St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary School | A− | 11% | 71% |
| Greswold Primary School | B+ | 17% | 70% |
| George Fentham Endowed School | B+ | 16% | 70% |
| St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary School | B+ | 22% | 69% |
| Tidbury Green School | B | 21% | 67% |
| Coleshill Heath School | B | 63% | 67% |
| St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | B | 11% | 66% |
| Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree | B | 21% | 66% |
| Fordbridge Community Primary School | B | 60% | 66% |
| Shirley Heath Junior School | B− | 17% | 64% |
| Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St James | B− | 9% | 64% |
| Tudor Grange Primary Academy Langley | B− | 18% | 64% |
| Cheswick Green Primary School | B− | 21% | 63% |
| Tudor Grange Primary Academy Hockley Heath | B− | 5% | 63% |
| St Andrew's Catholic Primary School | B− | 17% | 63% |
| Valley Primary | B− | 16% | 62% |
| Haslucks Green School | B− | 14% | 62% |
| Olton Primary School | B− | 19% | 61% |
| Meriden Church of England Primary School | C+ | 16% | 60% |
| Balsall Common Primary School | C+ | 9% | 60% |
| Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School | C+ | 14% | 60% |
| Mill Lodge Primary School | C+ | 27% | 59% |
| Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary School | C | 55% | 56% |
| Ulverley School | C | 23% | 56% |
| Castle Bromwich Junior School | C | 37% | 56% |
| Marston Green Junior School | C | 29% | 55% |
| Coppice Academy | C− | 33% | 53% |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School | C− | 44% | 51% |
| Windy Arbor Primary School | C− | 59% | 51% |
| Kineton Green Primary School | C− | 38% | 49% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025235 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Graded inspection: Good, September 2022.
Living near Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in CV7 7, the school’s postcode sector
Balsall Common property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in CV7 7 sell for about the same as Balsall Common’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Location
Directions ↗near Balsall Common, CV7 7BJ
Primary schools near Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
The nearest state schools of the same phase, as the crow flies. Catchments and admissions rules decide which one a child gets.
Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School: common questions
Is Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 87% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A), with 77% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, September 2022.
How hard is it to get into Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School?
For September 2026, 38 families put Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School first and 27 of them were offered a place; 27 places were offered in all.
What is Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (September 2022).
How much do houses cost near Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, CV7 7, sold for a median £448,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (413 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Balsall Common’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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