Caslon Primary Community School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Halesowen, Dudley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.76 miles
Published by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Caslon Primary Community School is a primary school in Halesowen, Dudley for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 19 November 2024. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Caslon Primary Community 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 | 1.76 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
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.76 miles away, the 12th longest of 39 Dudley primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.98 miles).
- That Reception 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2024, the other year with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 23 first-choice applications for 24 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 52% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Beeches View Avenue, Halesowen, B63 2ES
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 268 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 19 November 2024
Strengths
- “Caslon Primary Community School is a very welcoming school.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school.”
- “They feel valued due to the care and support they receive from staff.”
To improve
- “However, it is not yet implemented consistently across all subjects and year groups.”
- “Expectations for all pupil’s achievement are not high enough.”
- “This means that the curriculum does not yet support all pupils to build their knowledge well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 December 2024 (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) | 52% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 23 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.
- Colley Lane Primary Academy 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cradley CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Wollescote Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Huntingtree Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lutley Primary School 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Kenelm RC School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Margaret's At Hasbury CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Hob Green Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published