Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Worcestershire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 17 June 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 23 January 2020Ungraded inspection: School remains Good
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry155 applications · 89 places offered · 87 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Worcestershire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.7; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2024 1.9; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2023 2.1; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2022 1.8; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.7; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2020 1.9; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2019 1.9; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2018 1.8; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2017 1.7; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2016 2.0; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.8; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.8; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- This school
- Worcestershire median
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 89 | 155 | 1.7 | 87 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2025 | 88 | 146 | 1.7 | 84 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2024 | 83 | 154 | 1.9 | 81 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 | 90 | 188 | 2.1 | 97 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2022 | 88 | 156 | 1.8 | 74 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2021 | 87 | 147 | 1.7 | 79 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2020 | 90 | 172 | 1.9 | 82 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2019 | 90 | 168 | 1.9 | 85 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2018 | 90 | 158 | 1.8 | 86 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2017 | 83 | 144 | 1.7 | 79 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2016 | 90 | 181 | 2.0 | 104 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2015 | 90 | 162 | 1.8 | 77 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2014 | 90 | 163 | 1.8 | 77 | 0.86 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Vaynor First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place
- 1.0 km · WorcestershireRequires improvement20241.7applications per place
- 1.1 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20241.8applications per place
- 1.4 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · WorcestershireRemains Good20231.7applications per place
- 2.1 km · WorcestershireNot yet inspected1.3applications per place
- 2.2 km · Worcestershire20261.5applications per place
- 2.3 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place
- 2.5 km · WorcestershireGood20241.5applications per place
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 137960 · 885/2134
- Capacity
- 450 pupils · 425 on roll
- Free school meals
- 6.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2012
- Replaced
- The Vaynor First School (URN 116727)
- Address
- Tennyson Road, Headless Cross, Redditch, B97 5BL
- Local authority
- Worcestershire · Redditch
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources