Bleakhouse Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Oldbury, 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 🔒
Bleakhouse Primary School is a primary school in Oldbury, Sandwell for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 June 2023. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Bleakhouse 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
- Reception 2026 had 42 first-choice applications for 49 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 63 of the 86 other Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Among 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell that have results, its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result (48%) was the lowest.
- There were 24.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.5 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
- Bleakhouse Road, Oldbury, B68 9DS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 432 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 June 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have worked successfully to create a whole-school team following amalgamation with the infant school in September 2020.”
- “Bleakhouse Primary School is a friendly, inclusive community.”
- “Everyone is valued, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
To improve
- “However, there is more work to be done to identify the subjectspecific vocabulary that teachers need to teach so that pupils can talk about their learning.”
- “However, assessment strategies in other subjects are not consistent or fully embedded.”
- “These do not always identify gaps in what pupils know or help pupils to recall key knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 September 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) | 48% | 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: 42 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 42 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.
- Brandhall Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Moat Farm Infant School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Moat Farm Junior School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lightwoods Primary Academy 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Annie Lennard Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Abbey Junior School 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- Abbey Infant School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published