Graded inspection · Oct 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Sandwell
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | 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 entry117 applications · 84 places offered · 83 named it first
- 2026 1.4; Sandwell median median 1.9
- 2025 1.3; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2024 1.1; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2023 1.3; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2022 1.1; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2021 1.4; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2020 1.2; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2019 1.3; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2018 1.2; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2017 1.2; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2016 1.2; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2015 1.2; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2014 1.3; Sandwell median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Sandwell median
Dashed bars: as Victoria Infant School (URN 103921), the previous school.
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 | 84 | 117 | 1.4 | 83 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2025 | 69 | 89 | 1.3 | 68 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2024 | 80 | 88 | 1.1 | 72 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2023 | 63 | 80 | 1.3 | 62 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2022 | 81 | 92 | 1.1 | 76 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2021 | 87 | 119 | 1.4 | 86 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2020 | 77 | 94 | 1.2 | 75 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2019 | 67 | 86 | 1.3 | 64 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2018 | 83 | 102 | 1.2 | 81 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2017 | 80 | 93 | 1.2 | 77 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 | 85 | 105 | 1.2 | 81 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2015 | 81 | 96 | 1.2 | 78 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2014 * | 90 | 116 | 1.3 | 84 | 0.93 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Silvertrees AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20241.4applications per place
- 0.0 km · Sandwell202657%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · SandwellRemains Good20231.6applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · SandwellGood20221.7applications per place 59%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · DudleyGood20231.7applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · SandwellGood20222.1applications per place 52%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Sandwell20261.8applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · SandwellGraded · no overall grade20241.9applications per place 60%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · DudleyGood20242.4applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 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
- 140792 · 333/2062
- Trust
- Silvertrees Academy Trust
- Capacity
- 270 pupils · 314 on roll
- Free school meals
- 32.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 April 2014
- Replaced
- Victoria Infant School (URN 103921)
- Address
- Silvertrees Road, Tipton, DY4 8NH
- Local authority
- Sandwell
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources