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St Anthony's Catholic Primary School

PrimaryAges 2–11AcademyRoman Catholic

Birmingham, B37 6LW · Solihull local authority

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

Its letter
79%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
30/37
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
253 pupils
120% of its 210 places
Free school meals
32%
32 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Anthony's Catholic Primary School

  • Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 79% of England’s primary schools
  • 73% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11 points above England’s schools
  • Over capacity: 253 pupils for 210 places
  • Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement strong standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 81% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (30 of 37)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B37 6) sold for a median £215,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 73%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 79% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Solihull avg 67%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%St Anthony's Catholic Primary 73%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 109, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading90%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)73%
England’s schools 73%
Maths80%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling80%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 15 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
60%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
87%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three10%
England’s schools 8% · Solihull 13% · 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 St Anthony's Catholic Primary School?

81% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

37
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
81%
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 (14), 2020 (16), 2021 (8), 2022 (6), 2023 (7), 2024 (7), 2025 (7), 2026 (7). 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. Our Lady and All Saints Catholic Multi Academy Company 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
St Anthony's Catholic Primary
1.23 per place
81% got their first choice

Birmingham and Solihull, side by side

2023–2025

All 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. Birmingham’s schools are coloured by their letter.

45%53%61%69%77%85%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →St Anthony's Catholic
ABCDElsewhere in SolihullSt Anthony's Catholic Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
Smith's Wood Primary AcademyA+52%84%
Oak Cottage Primary SchoolA+5%84%
St Anne's Catholic Primary SchoolA32%81%
St Augustine's Catholic Primary SchoolA7%80%
Widney Junior SchoolA17%77%
Monkspath Junior and Infant SchoolA9%77%
Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary SchoolA8%77%
Knowle Church of England Primary AcademyA8%76%
Dorridge Primary SchoolA−5%75%
St Patricks Church of England Primary AcademyA−11%74%
Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary SchoolA−14%74%
Lady Katherine Leveson Church of England Primary SchoolA−31%73%
St Anthony's Catholic Primary SchoolA−32%73%
Sharmans Cross Junior SchoolA−12%72%
St Alphege Church of England Junior SchoolA−10%72%
Bentley Heath Church of England Primary SchoolA−10%72%
Dickens Heath Community Primary SchoolA−14%71%
St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary SchoolA−11%71%
Greswold Primary SchoolB+17%70%
George Fentham Endowed SchoolB+16%70%
St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary SchoolB+22%69%
Tidbury Green SchoolB21%67%
Coleshill Heath SchoolB63%67%
St Margaret's Church of England Primary SchoolB11%66%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew TreeB21%66%
Fordbridge Community Primary SchoolB60%66%
Shirley Heath Junior SchoolB−17%64%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy, St JamesB−9%64%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy LangleyB−18%64%
Cheswick Green Primary SchoolB−21%63%
Tudor Grange Primary Academy Hockley HeathB−5%63%
St Andrew's Catholic Primary SchoolB−17%63%
Valley PrimaryB−16%62%
Haslucks Green SchoolB−14%62%
Olton Primary SchoolB−19%61%
Meriden Church of England Primary SchoolC+16%60%
Balsall Common Primary SchoolC+9%60%
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary SchoolC+14%60%
Mill Lodge Primary SchoolC+27%59%
Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary SchoolC55%56%
Ulverley SchoolC23%56%
Castle Bromwich Junior SchoolC37%56%
Marston Green Junior SchoolC29%55%
Coppice AcademyC−33%53%
St John the Baptist Catholic Primary SchoolC−44%51%
Windy Arbor Primary SchoolC−59%51%
Kineton Green Primary SchoolC−38%49%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

254 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
21.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
8.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
35.7%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

St Anthony's Catholic Primary School’s letter

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

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths A−Better than 79% 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.

Report card, inspection starting June 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementStrong standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceStrong standard
Early yearsStrong standard

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, June 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Anthony's Catholic Primary School

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

Home prices in B37 6, the school’s postcode sector

Birmingham property prices →
£215,000
median sale, 259 sales in 36 months · Birmingham £225,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K2010201520202025B37 6Birmingham
B37 6Birmingham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£310K
Semi-detached
£240K
Terraced
£195K
Flat
£110K
B37 6Birmingham

Homes in B37 6 sell for a little 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

24 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCCB−C−C−A+A+CB−B−D−DD−C−C−AC−CC−BDCBA−St Anthony's Catholic Prima…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Birmingham, B37 6LW

St Anthony's Catholic Primary School: common questions

Is St Anthony's Catholic Primary School a good school?

By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 79% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 73% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in June 2026.

How hard is it to get into St Anthony's Catholic Primary School?

For September 2026, 37 families put St Anthony's Catholic Primary School first and 30 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is St Anthony's Catholic Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

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

How much do houses cost near St Anthony's Catholic Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, B37 6, sold for a median £215,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (259 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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