Blanford Mere Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Kingswinford, Dudley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.76 miles
Published by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blanford Mere Primary School is a primary school in Kingswinford, Dudley for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 February 2023. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Blanford Mere Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.76 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.76 miles away, the 14th shortest of 39 Dudley primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years; figures swung sharply between some years.
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 43 offers went to first-choice families, and 15 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 77% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Dudley.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Dudley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Mimosa Walk, Kingswinford, DY6 7EA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 311 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 February 2023
Strengths
- “From Nursery to Year 6, pupils experience an inclusive, calm and welcoming learning environment.”
- “Relationships are strong and pupils generally get along well.”
- “Adults deal with any incidents of unkindness quickly.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, however, a revised curriculum has only been introduced recently and it is not yet fully embedded.”
- “This is in the early stages of development.”
- “However, pupils do not use these books to practise reading at home.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 77% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 43 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Dudley.
- St Mary's CofE Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Dawley Brook Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Church of the Ascension CofE Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Maidensbridge Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Crestwood Park Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Bromley Hills Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Glynne Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published