Birmingham School Catchment Areas

Birmingham runs one of the larger school estates in England — 292 primary and 82 secondary schools, spread across market towns, villages and denser urban centres.

School density is highest in Birmingham and Sutton Coldfield — parents in rural parts of Birmingham should check the exact distance-offered figure from the previous year before banking on proximity alone.

Around 21% of schools in Birmingham have a religious character — Church of England, Catholic, or other faith — which means faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in those schools' oversubscription tiebreakers.

Each Birmingham school below links to its official DfE record and Ofsted report so you can verify everything against the source data yourself.