Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School
Birmingham, B36 0BX · Solihull local authority
Birmingham’s School Grade B better than 55% of towns in England
What stands out about Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School
- No letter for this school: the reason is below.
- Over capacity: 487 pupils for 450 places
- Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 88% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (98 of 112)
- Homes in its postcode sector (B36 0) sold for a median £251,000; Birmingham’s is £225,000
How hard is it to get a place at Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School?
88% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (30), 2020 (39), 2021 (25), 2022 (28), 2023 (15), 2024 (8), 2025 (15), 2026 (14). 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. Prosper Together Multi Academy Trust 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 · the 10 most in demand
88% got their first choice
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025495 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
No letter for Castle Bromwich 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 inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting February 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, January 2022.
Living near Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in B36 0, the school’s postcode sector
Birmingham property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in B36 0 sell for a little over 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
21 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Birmingham, B36 0BX
Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School: common questions
How hard is it to get into Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School?
For September 2026, 112 families put Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School first and 98 of them were offered a place; 118 places were offered in all.
What is Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (February 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 Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School?
Homes in its postcode sector, B36 0, sold for a median £251,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (387 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.
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