Whitecrest 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 🔒
Whitecrest Primary School is a primary school in Birmingham, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 17 June 2025. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Whitecrest 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
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), though 6% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in 2025, when a last distance was published.
- Reception 2026 had 24 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Reception 2026, 19 of the 82 applications (23%) came from families living outside Sandwell, and 10 offers went to them.
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
- Whitecrest, Great Barr, Birmingham, B43 6HQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 197 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 17 June 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Whitecrest Primary School.”
- “The school does all it can to make sure pupils attend regularly and on time.”
- “Pupils value the school’s caring and respectful staff who are on hand to listen to and act on any worries or concerns they have.”
To improve
- “However, at times, in some aspects of the curriculum, the work teachers set for pupils does not enable them to apply new learning well enough.”
- “This slows the progress some pupils make through these aspects of the curriculum, particularly in writing.”
- “This means that pupils do not learn and remember some aspects of the curriculum as well as they could”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 July 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) | 74% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 24 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.
- Holy Name Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Margaret's CofE Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ferndale Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Grove Vale Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Hamstead Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Yew Tree Primary School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pennyhill Primary School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Priory Primary School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published