St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School
Primary · Birmingham · B28 9JJ
Data updated
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 18 October 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
204 pupils · 97% of 210 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 27.9% of pupils (January 2026)
- Website
- www.sab.bham.sch.uk
- URN
- 151940
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 31 families named it first for 30 Reception places, 1.03 first choices per place. We hold 6 Reception admissions rounds for it, 2021 to 2026; none was decided by a published distance. Ofsted last graded it Good on 18 October 2022, under the framework used before November 2025. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.7% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.03 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 31 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
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 55% (Birmingham 24%, England 60%) · Asian Indian 9% (Birmingham 5%, England 4%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 9% (Birmingham 3%, England 2%) · Asian Pakistani 7% (Birmingham 23%, England 5%) · Asian Chinese 3% (Birmingham 1%, England 1%) · Any other White background 3% (Birmingham 4%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 2% (Birmingham 4%, England 3%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Birmingham 2%, England 2%) · White Irish 2% (Birmingham 0%, England 0%) · Any other Asian background 2% (Birmingham 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black African 2% (Birmingham 1%, England 1%) · Any other ethnic group 1% (Birmingham 7%, England 3%) · Not recorded 1% (Birmingham 2%, England 1%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms · how absence is measured
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £51,148; 20% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 5/10around the middle for England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 5/10around the middle for England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 32% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 21.6% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 27.5% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 20% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 44.9% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 77.4% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 3.1% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 19.4% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 20.3% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 24.5% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 23.8% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 23.3% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01032589 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £302,500432 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £230,000–£365,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are dearer than most 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
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 7an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 46an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 9an 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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