Graded inspection · Feb 2024 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 | 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 entry21 applications · 10 places offered · 10 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.1; Worcestershire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.1; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2024 2.0; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2023 1.2; Worcestershire median median 1.8
- 2022 1.2; Worcestershire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.2; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2020 1.3; Worcestershire median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2019 2.0; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.9; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 2.6; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2016 1.5; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2015 1.3; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2014 2.0; Worcestershire median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Worcestershire median
Dashed bars: as Upper Arley CofE VC Primary School (URN 135037), Upper Arley CofE VC First School (URN 116852), 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 | 10 | 21 | 2.1 | 10 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 7 | 8 | 1.1 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 2 | 4 | 2.0 | 2 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 9 | 11 | 1.2 | 9 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 6 | 7 | 1.2 | 4 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2021 * | 12 | 14 | 1.2 | 12 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 3 | 4 | 1.3 | 3 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 8 | 16 | 2.0 | 8 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 * | 14 | 26 | 1.9 | 11 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2017 * | 7 | 18 | 2.6 | 7 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 * | 11 | 16 | 1.5 | 10 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2015 * | 10 | 13 | 1.3 | 8 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2014 * | 7 | 14 | 2.0 | 6 | 0.86 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 80% · Writing 70% · Maths 80% → all three 70% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Worcestershire median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 70% | 10% | 106 | 103 |
| 2023/24 | 56% | 0% | 104 | 102 |
| 2022/23 | 30% | 0% | 103 | 100 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Upper Arley CofE Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.1applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 4.4 km · ShropshireStandards maintained20251.1applications per place 75%met the SATs standard
- 4.7 km · ShropshireRemains Good20241.2applications per place 55%met the SATs standard
- 4.8 km · ShropshireGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place
- 5.5 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- 5.7 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20251.7applications per place 62%met the SATs standard
- 5.8 km · WorcestershireGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 69%met the SATs standard
- 6.1 km · Worcestershire20262.0applications per place 68%met the SATs standard
- 6.2 km · WorcestershireRemains Good20223.6applications per place 63%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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 147761 · 885/2037
- Trust
- The Black Pear Trust
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 105 pupils · 81 on roll
- Free school meals
- 15.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 April 2021
- Replaced
- Upper Arley CofE VC Primary School (URN 135037); Upper Arley CofE VC First School (URN 116852)
- Address
- Upper Arley, Bewdley, DY12 1XA
- Local authority
- Worcestershire · Wyre Forest
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources