Cotwall End Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Dudley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.44 miles
Published by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cotwall End Primary School is a primary school in Dudley for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 12 February 2025. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Cotwall End 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 | 4.44 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 in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 4.44 miles away, the longest of 39 Dudley primary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 0.98 miles.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further out than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years; it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception in 2026 there were 62 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th 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
- Cotwall End Road, Sedgley, Dudley, DY3 3YG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 415 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 12 February 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils at Cotwall End Primary are happy and welcoming.”
- “They demonstrate the school’s values in their learning and when interacting with others.”
- “The school has high expectations of all pupils, and pupils respond well to these.”
To improve
- “However, expectations of pupils’ handwriting are not consistently high.”
- “Some pupils do not write fluently and accurately.”
- “As a result, the quality of pupils’ written work is variable.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 2025 (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) | 67% | 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: 62 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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 Chad's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Queen Victoria Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Alder Coppice Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Straits Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bramford Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Roberts Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hurst Hill Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Wrens Nest Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published