Grace Mary Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Oldbury, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.526 miles
Published by Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Grace Mary Primary School is a primary school in Oldbury, Sandwell for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 13 November 2024. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Grace Mary 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 | 0.526 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, Reception had 40 first-choice applications for 28 offers, 1.4 first choices per offer, the highest of 86 Sandwell primary schools.
- In 2026, 26 Reception offers went to first-choice families, and 14 first-choice families (35%) were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.526 miles away, nearer than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- 2024/25: 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, highest of 8 schools: this one and 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Sandwell that have results.
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
- Hawfield Road, Tividale, Oldbury, B69 1LD
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 241 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 13 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Grace Mary Primary School are excited and ready to learn.”
- “Rigorous school routines help pupils settle quickly to their learning each day.”
- “Pupils enjoy learning new things and playing with their friends at their ‘amazing’ school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 December 2024 (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) | 80% | 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: 40 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 26 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.
- Oakham Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Rounds Green Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tividale Hall Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Tividale Community Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Rowley Hall Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Burnt Tree Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Springfield Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published