Graded inspection · Nov 2023 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Staffordshire
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 | Good | |||
| 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 entry100 applications · 29 places offered · 28 named it first
- 2026 3.5; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2025 3.8; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2024 3.3; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2023 3.8; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2022 3.8; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2021 4.7; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2020 5.0; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2019 4.4; Staffordshire median median 2.0
- 2018 4.4; Staffordshire median median 1.9
- 2017 4.4; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 4.3; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 3.9; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 4.5; Staffordshire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Staffordshire median
Dashed bars: as Birches First School (URN 124077), 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 | 29 | 100 | 3.5 | 28 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 113 | 3.8 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 100 | 3.3 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2023 | 29 | 110 | 3.8 | 30 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2022 | 30 | 115 | 3.8 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2021 | 29 | 136 | 4.7 | 33 | 1.14 |
| Sep 2020 | 30 | 149 | 5.0 | 43 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2019 | 30 | 133 | 4.4 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2018 | 30 | 133 | 4.4 | 52 | 1.73 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 132 | 4.4 | 41 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2016 * | 30 | 129 | 4.3 | 43 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 116 | 3.9 | 40 | 1.33 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 134 | 4.5 | 49 | 1.63 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Birches First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20233.5applications per place
- 0.9 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20242.6applications per place 67%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · WolverhamptonRemains Good20242.3applications per place 55%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · StaffordshireGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place
- 1.5 km · WolverhamptonGood20231.6applications per place
- 1.9 km · StaffordshireStandards maintained20252.1applications per place
- 2.1 km · Wolverhampton20262.3applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 2.3 km · WolverhamptonGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 31%met the SATs standard
- 2.5 km · WolverhamptonRemains Good20232.5applications per place 69%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
- 144935 · 860/2195
- Trust
- Codsall Multi Academy Trust
- Capacity
- 150 pupils · 175 on roll
- Free school meals
- 6.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 January 2018
- Replaced
- Birches First School (URN 124077)
- Address
- Birches Avenue, Codsall, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 2JG
- Local authority
- Staffordshire · South Staffordshire
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources