St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Birmingham·B8 2PS
Composite score
33.8
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#12,644
National rank
#1340
In West Midlands
#250
In Birmingham
Top 86%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
52%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
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
94%
32 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.07
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
42
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.07
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9320220.9720230.9720241.0020251.072026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) 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
237
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
61.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
58.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
28.7%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
23.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,308
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 237 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 52% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That is down 7.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Competition for places is real here - 94% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (32 first choices for 30 places). Overall pupil absence was 6.9%. There are about 19.9 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 61% 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. St Cuthbert's RC Junior and Infant (NC) 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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