St Peter's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Birmingham · B32 3QD
Data updated
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 9 December 2025 · report published 27 January 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
210 pupils · 100% of 210 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 35.7% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 21.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 11.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 0.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
- Website
- www.stpeterc.bham.sch.uk
- URN
- 150849
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 33 families named it first for 30 Reception places, 1.10 first choices per place. We hold 6 Reception admissions rounds for it, 2021 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. At its report-card inspection on 9 December 2025, under the system Ofsted introduced in November 2025, the Achievement area was judged Strong standard. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.3% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.10 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 33 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2026 entry.
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Birmingham school admissions · the wider Birmingham authority
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
30 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · what “suppressed” means
Schools with a similar intake
Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025
On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is ahead of the schools that teach a comparable intake.
They are matched on intake, not location, so most are not local: see nearby schools for those you could apply to.
It is not a ranking. Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · how the matching works
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 40% (Birmingham 24%, England 60%) · Black African 22% (Birmingham 10%, England 5%) · Any other Mixed background 6% (Birmingham 4%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 5% (Birmingham 3%, England 2%) · Black Caribbean 4% (Birmingham 3%, England 1%) · Any other White background 4% (Birmingham 4%, England 7%) · Any other Black background 4% (Birmingham 1%, England 1%) · Not recorded 4% (Birmingham 2%, England 1%) · Asian Indian 3% (Birmingham 5%, England 4%) · Any other Asian background 3% (Birmingham 2%, England 2%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Birmingham 7%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Birmingham 1%, England 1%) · other groups together 2%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
0.95 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Birmingham: 2.51 suspensions and 0.07 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
90% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 10% left the state-funded sector
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher sickness absence (reported in the November 2024 census)
50% of teachers took sickness absence, 2.6 days each on average · England, all state-funded schools: 61.8%, 8.1 days
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £51,064; 20% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
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Unlock with SchoolFacts Premium →Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
Spending per pupil (2024-25)
Where the money went (2024-25)
Share of spending, with the median for primary schools in brackets: Staff 76% (77%) · premises 5% (5%) · occupation (energy, rates, cleaning) 11% (8%) · supplies and services 8% (9%) · educational supplies 2% (4%) · bought-in professional services 3% (2%) · catering 7% (5%)
Reserves (2024-25)
Revenue reserve £328,000; in-year balance +£90,000
Higher spending is not a measure of quality. Source: academy finance return, 2024-25, DfE · how spending is compared
Inspection history since 2015
- 9 December 2025: Strong standard
Source: Ofsted management information · ungraded visits and the two inspection systems
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 3/10more deprived than most of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 5/10around the middle for England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 23% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 22.4% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 26.5% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 19.2% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 43.7% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 77.7% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 10% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 12% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 9.7% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 1.3% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 6.2% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 19.7% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01008920 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £206,000178 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £180,000–£249,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are cheaper than three quarters of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 3an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 9an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 23an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 8an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
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