Wollescote Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Stourbridge, Dudley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wollescote Primary School is a primary school in Stourbridge, Dudley for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 February 2023. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Wollescote 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, whereas places ran out in 2024, the one earlier year with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 50 first-choice applications for 54 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 64% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Dudley.
- There are 18.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.1 across 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
- Drummond Road, Wollescote, Stourbridge, DY9 8YA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 440 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 February 2023
Strengths
- “Wollescote Primary School is a friendly, caring and respectful place.”
- “Staff and pupils are quick to welcome new pupils and help them settle in.”
- “The school’s motto highlights the importance of being polite and staff demonstrate this in their own behaviour.”
To improve
- “However, some are stronger than others.”
- “However, the school’s routines for providing home reading books could be better.”
- “Currently, leaders’ expectations do not ensure that those pupils who need the most practice read regularly enough at home.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 May 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) | 64% | 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: 50 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 50 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.
- Caslon Primary Community School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hob Green Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rufford Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Colley Lane Primary Academy 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Thorns Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cradley CofE Primary School 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Ham Dingle Primary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Peters Hill Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published