St Ambrose Barlow Catholic Primary School
Primary · Birmingham · B28 9JJ
Good
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.
Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: OutstandingPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes
Inspected 18 October 2022
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
204 pupils · 97% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 27.9% of pupils
- Website
- www.sab.bham.sch.uk
- URN
- 151940
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.03 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 31 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Sessions missed (overall absence)
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Pupils per qualified teacher
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.