Russells Hall Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · 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 🔒
Russells Hall Primary School is a primary school in Dudley for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 8 April 2025. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Russells Hall 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, though a last distance was published for the earlier year with an outcome, 2024.
- 34 of the 77 other Dudley primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome also offered every applicant a place.
- Reception 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 41% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% 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
- Overfield Road, Russells Hall Estate, Dudley, DY1 2NX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 413 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 8 April 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils live and breathe Russell Hall’s values.”
- “Pupils and staff ‘learn together to be the best that we can be’.”
- “Leaders are committed to raising ambition, aspirations and to providing opportunities to succeed.”
To improve
- “In the recent past, pupils have not achieved as well as they might in published outcomes.”
- “In some subjects, pupils do not have enough opportunities to practise the most important things they are learning.”
- “For example, while pupils learn about grammatical features in English, they sometimes move on to new ideas before they have secured this understanding.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 May 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) | 41% | 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, 59 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.
- Milking Bank Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Red Hall Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodside Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Roberts Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Jesson's Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Blowers Green Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published