Bearwood Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Smethwick, 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 🔒
Bearwood Primary School is a primary school in Smethwick, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 May 2023. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bearwood 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
- 39.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 33.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell.
- Reception 2026 drew 47 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- Of the 101 Reception 2026 applications, 11 came from families living outside Sandwell, and 6 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 64% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Bearwood Road, Smethwick, B66 4HB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 465 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 May 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders at Bearwood Primary School are passionate that every child will be successful at school.”
- “They are committed to ensuring that pupils attend school regularly.”
- “Leaders make sure that any incidents of bullying or poor behaviour are dealt with quickly and do not happen again.”
To improve
- “However, the early years curriculum is not as clearly sequenced in some areas.”
- “This means that sometimes, children are not given the opportunity to rehearse and consolidate their learning.”
- “However, in a few subjects, gaps in learning are not always identified and addressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2023 (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) | 64% | 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: 47 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 47 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.
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Abbey Infant School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Abbey Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- Shireland Technology Primary 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Annie Lennard Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shireland Hall Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Cape Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published