Prince Albert Junior and Infant School

Academy converter·Primary school Birmingham·B6 5NH
Composite score
66.5
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#2,369
National rank
#200
In West Midlands
#42
In Birmingham
Top 16%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
79%
% achieving higher RWM
13%
Reading average scaled score
109.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
111.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
94%
92 first choices, 90 places
First choices per place
1.02
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
183
any preference, for 90 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.05
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9820220.9820230.9820240.9720251.022026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Prince Albert Junior and 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
715
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
59.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
65.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.3%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
24.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.8
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,800
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Prince Albert Junior and Infant School at a glance

Located in Birmingham, Prince Albert Junior and Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 715 pupils aged 3 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 79% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — well above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 5.0 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 among the top 16% of primary schools in England.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 109 in reading and 111 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 13% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Competition for places is real here - 94% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (92 first choices for 90 places). Overall pupil absence was 7.3%. There are about 20.8 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 59% 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. Prince Albert Junior and 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.

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