Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School
- Primary
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages 3 to 11
- Roman Catholic
URN 150954 · Birmingham · ST. JOHN PAUL II MULTI ACADEMY COMPANY
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest graded inspection
30 November 2022Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Ofsted category: Special measures.
- Quality of education
- Inadequate
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Inadequate
- Early years provision
- Inadequate
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
This inspection was of the predecessor school, before it converted or reopened under its current URN.
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1
Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Key stage 2 results
Against Birmingham and England, primary schools.
Reading, writing and maths: expected standard
2024/25Not publishedNot applicable to this school
- Birmingham
- 63%
- England
- 63%
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| Year | This school | Birmingham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 58% | 59% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 59% | 60% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 61% | 61% |
| 2024/25 | Not published | 63% | 63% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | Not published | 64% | 63% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.
Reading, writing and maths: higher standard
2024/25Not publishedNot applicable to this school
- Birmingham
- 8%
- England
- 8%
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| Year | This school | Birmingham | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 6% | 7% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 7% | 8% |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 7% | 8% |
| 2024/25 | Not published | 8% | 8% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | Not published | 7% | 9% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 2 who met the higher standard in reading, writing and maths combined. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 2 attainment, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Birmingham and England, primary schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2620.5
- Birmingham
- 20.9
- England
- 21.2
0.7 lower than England.
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
See this school in the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool
About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 199
- Capacity
- 232
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Trust
- ST. JOHN PAUL II MULTI ACADEMY COMPANY
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 5 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Oliver Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, West Midlands, B16 9ER
Website: www.theoratoryschool.co.uk
Telephone: 01214540600
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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