Colebourne Primary School

Community school·Primary school Birmingham·B34 6BJ
Composite score
51.1
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#6,893
National rank
#703
In West Midlands
#128
In Birmingham
Top 47%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
66%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
77%
74 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.23
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
171
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.36
00.511.5
1 per place
1.1320221.3020231.3020240.8820251.232026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Colebourne Primary School yet. Birmingham does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
451
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
41.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
51.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.1%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,540
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

Colebourne Primary School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Colebourne Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 451 pupils aged 3 to 11. 66% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 13.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Colebourne Primary School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 74 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 21.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 41% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Colebourne Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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