Crocketts Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Smethwick, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.284 miles
Published by Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Crocketts Community Primary School is a primary school in Smethwick, Sandwell for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 7 January 2025. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Crocketts 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 | 0.284 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 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.284 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 22 Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 84 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 24 first-choice families (29%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 65% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 8% 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
- Coopers Lane, Smethwick, B67 7DW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 472 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 7 January 2025
Strengths
- “Crocketts Community Primary School is a highly inclusive and welcoming school.”
- “Staff understand the needs and challenges of their pupils and local community.”
- “The school is highly ambitious for all pupils.”
To improve
- “However, in English, particularly in writing, how knowledge builds on prior learning over time is less clear.”
- “Consequently, this slows down learning for some pupils.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 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) | 65% | 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: 84 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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.
- Victoria Park Primary 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Devonshire Infant Academy 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Devonshire Junior Academy 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Uplands Manor Primary School and Nursery 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Shireland Technology Primary 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Matthew's CofE Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Philip's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Galton Valley Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published