Applying for a place in reception

Catchment areas

We strongly recommend that you include your catchment-area school among your preferences, even if it is your lowest preference.  You can find out your catchment-area school using Online Maps. Living in the catchment area does not guarantee that you will be given a place, but you will have a high priority.  You can measure the distance from your home to a Solihull school using Online Maps.

If you do not include your catchment-area school and we cannot offer you a place at any of your other preferred schools you will be offered a place at the nearest school with a vacancy after all the other places have been offered.

Primary and infant schools

For more information about primary and infant schools use the drop down menu below.  You will see the schools' contact details and their admission criteria.   You should check the admission criteria to see if you need to supply any supplementary information to the school, for example a baptismal certificate. You can ask the school for a prospectus and when you can visit.

Balsall Common Primary School Bentley Heath Church of England Primary School Berkswell Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bishop Wilson Church of England Primary School Blossomfield Infant and Nursery School Burman Infant School Castle Bromwich Infant School Cheswick Green Primary School Coleshill Heath School Cranmore Infant School Damson Wood Nursery and Infant School Daylesford Infant School Dickens Heath Community Primary School Dorridge Nursery and Infant School Fordbridge Community Primary School George Fentham Endowed School Greswold Primary School Hatchford Brook Junior and Infant School Hockley Heath Primary School Kineton Green Primary School Kingshurst Primary School Knowle Church of England Primary School Lady Katherine Leveson Church of England School Langley Primary School Marston Green Infant School Meriden Church of England Primary School Mill Lodge Primary School Monkspath Junior and Infant School Oak Cottage Primary School Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School Peterbrook Primary School Smith's Wood Community Primary School St Alphege Church of England Infant and Nursery School St Andrew's Catholic Primary School St Anne's Catholic Primary School St Anthony's Catholic Primary School St Augustine's Catholic Primary School St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary School St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School St Margaret's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School St Mary and St Margaret's Church of England Aided Primary School St Patrick's C Of E Primary Academy Streetsbrook Infant and Nursery School Tidbury Green School Ulverley School Valley Infant School Windy Arbor Junior and Infant School Woodlands Infant School Yew Tree Primary School Yorkswood Primary School

Is your application realistic?

You can work out the priority your child's application will be given and find out if he or she would have been offered a place in previous years.

You can apply online for up to four schools that you would like your child to go to.  You must rank the schools in order of preference.  The school you name first should be the one you would most like your child to go to.  The schools will not be told your rank order.

If a school receives more applications than places available the admission criteria area used to decide who is offered a place.

Exceptional circumstances

Priority is given, at some Solihull schools, to children with exceptional social or medical reasons.  If you think there may be exceptional circumstances find out more or phone School Admissions.

Moving house and proving your address / changing your application / applying late

Information about moving house and what you need to provide as proof, changing your application after it has been submitted and applying after the closing date.

What happens after the offers have been made?

Information about accepting your place, waiting lists and how to appeal.

Special educational needs

If your child has a statement of special educational needs the process is different.  For more information phone 0121 704 6690.

School transport

You can find out if your child would be entitled to help with transport to and from school if he or she is offered a place.