Dingle Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Kingswinford, Dudley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.85 miles
Published by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Dingle Community Primary School is a primary school in Kingswinford, Dudley for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 28 January 2025. Dudley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Dingle Community 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 | 3.85 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 Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 3.85 miles away, the 2nd longest of 39 Dudley primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 15 first-choice applications for 25 offers, 0.6 first choices per offer and the lowest of 77 Dudley primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 10 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 67% 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.
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
- Madeley Road, Kingswinford, DY6 8PF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Dudley
- Pupils on roll
- 188 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 28 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Dingle Community Primary School.”
- “Staff help them to keep safe and healthy.”
- “Pupils know who to speak to if they are worried about anything.”
To improve
- “However, pupils are not supported to achieve as well as they could across some parts of the curriculum.”
- “As a result, pupils are not prepared as well as they should be for the next phase of their education.”
- “However, the school has not yet embedded the new systems that have been introduced.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 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: 15 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 15 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.
- Bromley Hills Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Crestwood Park Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Hawbush Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Fairhaven Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Bromley-Pensnett Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Brockmoor Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Brook Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Glynne Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published