St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Birmingham·B16 8RN
Composite score
45.5
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#8,952
National rank
#943
In West Midlands
#179
In Birmingham
Top 61%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
70%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
32 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.07
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
78
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.37
00.511.5
1 per place
0.6820220.8420230.7520240.7020251.072026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
210
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
71.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
71.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.3%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,252
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary is a primary school serving Birmingham, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Church of England religious character. It has 210 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 70% 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 3.0 percentage points year on 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 104 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 32 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.5%. There are about 21.0 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. St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary 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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