Graded inspection · Feb 2025 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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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 · 107 named it first
- 2026 1.7; Sandwell median median 1.9
- 2025 1.6; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2024 1.4; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2023 1.4; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2022 1.4; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2021 1.4; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2020 1.7; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2019 1.5; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2018 1.6; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2017 2.0; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2016 1.7; Sandwell median median 1.7
- 2015 1.7; Sandwell median median 1.6
- 2014 1.6; Sandwell median median 1.6; as the previous school
- This school
- Sandwell median
Dashed bars: as Devonshire Infant School (URN 103943), 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 | 89 | 155 | 1.7 | 107 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 90 | 146 | 1.6 | 113 | 1.26 |
| Sep 2024 | 90 | 122 | 1.4 | 92 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2023 | 85 | 120 | 1.4 | 82 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2022 | 88 | 121 | 1.4 | 82 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2021 | 90 | 128 | 1.4 | 86 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2020 | 90 | 149 | 1.7 | 87 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2019 | 89 | 130 | 1.5 | 84 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2018 | 90 | 148 | 1.6 | 93 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2017 | 89 | 177 | 2.0 | 117 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2016 | 90 | 154 | 1.7 | 108 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2015 | 90 | 154 | 1.7 | 102 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2014 * | 90 | 147 | 1.6 | 107 | 1.19 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Devonshire Infant AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place
- 0.0 km · SandwellRemains Good202271%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · SandwellGraded · no overall grade20252.8applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · SandwellGood20231.5applications per place 55%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · SandwellStandards maintained20251.4applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · SandwellGraded · no overall grade20242.6applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · SandwellGraded · no overall grade20241.5applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · SandwellRemains Good · improving20241.2applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · SandwellGood20232.1applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 141293 · 333/2125
- Capacity
- 315 pupils · 346 on roll
- Free school meals
- 25.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 September 2014
- Replaced
- Devonshire Infant School (URN 103943)
- Address
- Auckland Road, Smethwick, B67 7AT
- Local authority
- Sandwell
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources