Hamstead Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Birmingham, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hamstead Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 16 September 2021. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Hamstead 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 place for Reception 2026, as at 63 of the 86 other Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 18.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
- Some 30.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 24.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Sandwell schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hamstead Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, B43 5BE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 423 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 16 September 2021
Strengths
- “Pupils understand the values, with comments including ‘I think the most important value is tolerance’, ‘we are all equal and we should all be treated equally’ and ‘whether we have different languages or come from a different country, we are all equal’.”
- “Pupils are well cared for and staff keep a close eye on them to make sure they are kept as safe as possible.”
- “Pupils get on well with each other.”
To improve
- “However, in some year groups, teachers do not check that pupils present their work neatly and accurately.”
- “Some errors in pupils’ spellings of subject-specific words are also not addressed.”
- “As yet, religious education (RE), design and technology (DT) and computing are less developed than other curriculum subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 October 2021 (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: 38 first-preference applications, 38 offers in total, 38 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 Sandwell.
- Ferndale Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Grove Vale Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Holy Name Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whitecrest Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Margaret's CofE Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Pennyhill Primary School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Yew Tree Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Eaton Valley Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published