Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant School

Voluntary aided school·Infant school Birmingham·B45 0EU

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

94%

63 first choices, 60 places

First choices per place

1.05

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 60 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.05

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8320220.9120230.9620241.0020251.052026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 183
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England/Methodist

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

70.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

20.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

24.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

4.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

9.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

33.7%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

13.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£11,721

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Reaside Academy Birmingham · 0.4 mi 49.0 Forestdale Primary School Birmingham · 0.6 mi 9.8 Colmers Farm Primary School Birmingham · 0.8 mi 45.5 St James Catholic Primary School Birmingham · 0.9 mi 80.3 Rednal Hill Junior School Birmingham · 1.1 mi 33.0 Merritts Brook Primary E-ACT Academy Birmingham · 1.2 mi 52.4 St Columba's Catholic Primary School Birmingham · 1.3 mi 61.3 The Meadows Primary School Birmingham · 1.5 mi 33.2

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Church of England/Methodist religious character. The school educates roughly 183 pupils aged 3 to 7.

Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 63 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 9.0%. There are about 13.3 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 71% 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. Holly Hill Methodist CofE Infant 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.