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Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School

PrimaryAges 3–7Academy

Birmingham, B27 6LG · Birmingham local authority

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

Getting in
60/60
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
279 pupils
80% of its 348 places
Free school meals
34%
34 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted report card, April 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (60 of 60)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B27 6) sold for a median £230,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School?

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

60
families put it first for September 2026
65
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

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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. Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School sets the admissions rules. Apply through Birmingham 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
Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

328 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
13.1%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
41.2%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
37.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

No letter for Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Report card, inspection starting April 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementNeeds attention
Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
InclusionExpected standard
Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
Personal development and well-beingExpected standard
Leadership and governanceNeeds attention
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, February 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School

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

Home prices in B27 6, the school’s postcode sector

Birmingham property prices →
£230,000
median sale, 240 sales in 36 months · Birmingham £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025B27 6Birmingham
B27 6Birmingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£329K
Semi-detached
£262K
Terraced
£232K
Flat
£131K
B27 6Birmingham

Homes in B27 6 sell for about the same as 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

33 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+CC+C+D−DB−B−B−AC+BCA−CBC+B−B+A+DBCC−CA+BB−C+B−C−CCottesbrooke Infant and Nur…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Birmingham, B27 6LG

Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School?

For September 2026, 60 families put Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School first and all of them were offered a place; 65 places were offered in all.

What is Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (April 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B27 6, sold for a median £230,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (240 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.