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Marston Green Infant Academy

PrimaryAges 3–7Academy

Birmingham, B37 7AA · Solihull local authority

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

Getting in
69/69
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
326 pupils
121% of its 270 places
Free school meals
20%
20 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Marston Green Infant Academy

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 326 pupils for 270 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (69 of 69)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B37 7) sold for a median £224,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Marston Green Infant Academy?

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

69
families put it first for September 2026
73
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 (17), 2020 (4), 2021 (10), 2022 (7), 2023 (8), 2024 (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. Marston Green Infant Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Solihull 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
Marston Green Infant
0.95 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

359 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
8.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
12.8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
25.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 43%Boys 57%
Its letter

No letter for Marston Green Infant Academy

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.

Graded inspection: Good, October 2019. Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, January 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Marston Green Infant Academy

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

Home prices in B37 7, the school’s postcode sector

Birmingham property prices →
£224,000
median sale, 420 sales in 36 months · Birmingham £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025B37 7Birmingham
B37 7Birmingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£435K
Semi-detached
£290K
Terraced
£195K
Flat
£136K
B37 7Birmingham

Homes in B37 7 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

20 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−CCCCCB−C−A+B−B−DD−CC−AC−BBMarston Green Infant Academy
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Birmingham, B37 7AA

Marston Green Infant Academy: common questions

How hard is it to get into Marston Green Infant Academy?

For September 2026, 69 families put Marston Green Infant Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 73 places were offered in all.

What is Marston Green Infant Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (January 2025).

How much do houses cost near Marston Green Infant Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, B37 7, sold for a median £224,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (420 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.

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