St Thomas More Catholic Primary School

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Birmingham·B26 3HU
Composite score
27.3
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#13,785
National rank
#1475
In West Midlands
#267
In Birmingham
Top 93%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
42%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
92%
48 first choices, 45 places
First choices per place
1.07
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
108
any preference, for 45 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.02
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1 per place
0.8920220.9520230.9520241.0920251.072026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Thomas More Catholic 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
350
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
33.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
15.4%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
21.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
0.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.2%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
24.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
23.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,191
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About St Thomas More Catholic Primary School

St Thomas More Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 350 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. 42% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 21.0 percentage points compared with 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 103 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). St Thomas More Catholic Primary 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 48 first choices for 45 places. Overall pupil absence was 7.2%. There are about 23.0 pupils per teacher. When you visit, you might ask how the school stretches its higher-attaining pupils and supports those who need to catch up. 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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