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Bearwood Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Community

Birmingham, B66 4HB · Sandwell local authority

Birmingham’s School Grade B better than 55% of towns in England

Its letter
54%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
47/47
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
465 pupils
93% of its 498 places
Free school meals
45%
45 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Bearwood Primary School

  • Its own letter, B−: Key Stage 2 results better than 54% of England’s primary schools
  • 45% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, May 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (47 of 47)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B66 4) sold for a median £185,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 64%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 54% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Sandwell avg 60%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Bearwood Primary 64%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading79%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)75%
England’s schools 73%
Maths73%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling71%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 23 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
39%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
82%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three9%
England’s schools 8% · Sandwell 7% · 2025

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Bearwood Primary School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

47
families put it first for September 2026
48
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (3). 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. Sandwell council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Sandwell council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Birmingham, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

2.49 per place
40% got their first choice
2.30 per place
42% got their first choice
1.97 per place
46% got their first choice
1.83 per place
53% got their first choice
1.77 per place
57% got their first choice
1.70 per place
59% got their first choice
1.60 per place
63% got their first choice
1.57 per place
47% got their first choice
1.53 per place
65% got their first choice
Bearwood Primary
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice

Birmingham and Sandwell, side by side

2023–2025

All 84 graded primaries in Sandwell. 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. Birmingham’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%44%53%62%71%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Bearwood
ABCDElsewhere in SandwellBearwood Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
St John Bosco Catholic Primary SchoolA+30%84%
Grove Vale Primary SchoolA13%81%
Timbertree AcademyA44%81%
Ocker Hill AcademyA36%76%
St Pauls Church of England AcademyA37%76%
Grace Mary Primary SchoolA−31%75%
Langley Primary SchoolA−43%75%
George Betts Primary AcademyA−47%75%
Burnt Tree Primary SchoolA−32%73%
Whitecrest Primary SchoolA−17%73%
Ryders Green Primary SchoolA−39%73%
Galton Valley Primary SchoolA−49%73%
Moat Farm Junior SchoolA−41%73%
St Matthew's CofE Primary SchoolA−41%72%
Tameside Primary AcademyA−54%71%
Brandhall Primary SchoolB+40%70%
Corngreaves AcademyB+39%69%
Shireland Hall Primary AcademyB+29%69%
Oakham Primary SchoolB+24%68%
Abbey Junior SchoolB22%66%
Old Hill Primary SchoolB37%66%
Lodge Primary SchoolB40%65%
Wednesbury Oak AcademyB45%65%
Devonshire Junior AcademyB39%65%
Hamstead Primary SchoolB−32%64%
Old Park Primary SchoolB−31%64%
Bearwood Primary SchoolB−45%64%
Lyng Primary SchoolB−34%64%
Joseph Turner Primary SchoolB−46%64%
Lightwoods Primary AcademyB−18%64%
Hargate Primary SchoolB−36%63%
Great Bridge Primary SchoolB−35%63%
Springfield Primary SchoolB−37%63%
Sacred Heart Primary SchoolB−42%63%
Tividale Hall Primary SchoolB−25%62%
St Margaret's CofE Primary SchoolB−15%62%
Victoria Park PrimaryB−41%61%
Jubilee Park AcademyB−62%61%
All Saints CofE Primary SchoolC+28%60%
Tividale Community Primary SchoolC+23%60%
Holyhead Primary AcademyC+45%60%
Hall Green Primary SchoolC+40%59%
Causeway Green Primary SchoolC+30%59%
The Priory Primary SchoolC+51%59%
St John's Church of England Primary AcademyC+47%59%
Holy Name Catholic Primary SchoolC+22%59%
Eaton Valley Primary SchoolC+26%58%
Crocketts Community Primary SchoolC+36%58%
St Gregory's Catholic Primary SchoolC+20%58%
Glebefields Primary SchoolC62%57%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary SchoolC40%57%
Harvills Hawthorn Primary SchoolC34%57%
Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary SchoolC15%57%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolC25%57%
Moorlands Primary SchoolC42%56%
Blackheath Primary SchoolC38%56%
Pennyhill Primary SchoolC39%56%
Highfields Primary SchoolC36%55%
Perryfields Primary SchoolC34%55%
St James CofE Primary SchoolC49%55%
Wood Green Junior SchoolC42%54%
Annie Lennard Primary SchoolC37%54%
Ferndale Primary SchoolC−32%53%
King George V Primary SchoolC−39%53%
Bleakhouse Primary SchoolC−30%52%
Yew Tree Primary SchoolC−46%52%
St Martin's CofE Primary SchoolC−24%52%
Summerhill Primary AcademyC−53%52%
St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary SchoolC−29%51%
Uplands Manor Primary School and NurseryC−49%50%
St Philip's Catholic Primary SchoolC−35%49%
Rounds Green Primary SchoolC−40%49%
Cape Primary SchoolC−49%48%
Hanbury Primary SchoolC−39%48%
Tipton Green Junior SchoolC−51%48%
Temple Meadow Primary SchoolD40%47%
Mesty Croft PrimaryD47%46%
St Mary Magdalene CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolD24%45%
Newtown Primary SchoolD50%44%
Hateley Heath AcademyD33%43%
Park Hill Primary SchoolD31%42%
Brickhouse Primary SchoolD48%41%
Rood End Primary SchoolD45%39%
Reddal Hill Primary SchoolD−43%35%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

446 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.

SEN support
13.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
59.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
45.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 55%Boys 45%
Its letter

Bearwood Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B−Better than 54% of 15,230 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, May 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Bearwood Primary School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in B66 4, the school’s postcode sector

Birmingham property prices →
£185,000
median sale, 130 sales in 36 months · Birmingham £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025B66 4Birmingham
B66 4Birmingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£395K
Semi-detached
£250K
Terraced
£190K
Flat
£69K
B66 4Birmingham

Homes in B66 4 sell for well under Birmingham’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

37 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+D−A−A+BCC−C−C+B+A−DC−B−A−A−B−DB+B−B+BAB+C+CC−BB−A−B−A−DB+B−Bearwood Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Birmingham, B66 4HB

Bearwood Primary School: common questions

Is Bearwood Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 54% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B−), with 64% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, May 2023.

How hard is it to get into Bearwood Primary School?

For September 2026, 47 families put Bearwood Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 48 places were offered in all.

What is Bearwood Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (May 2023).

How much do houses cost near Bearwood Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B66 4, sold for a median £185,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (130 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; Birmingham’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.