Lyng Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · West Bromwich, 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 🔒
Lyng Primary School is a primary school in West Bromwich, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 26 February 2025. Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Lyng 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
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, as at 63 of the 86 other Sandwell primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 had 51 first-choice applications for 52 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result ranked 3rd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 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
- Horton Street, West Bromwich, B70 7SQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 453 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 26 February 2025
Strengths
- “Staff at Lyng Primary School have created a warm and nurturing environment that embraces and celebrates difference and allows pupils to thrive.”
- “Pupils are courteous and behave well in and out of lessons.”
- “Any upsets are quickly sorted by staff who know their pupils well.”
To improve
- “However, the impact of those changes has yet to be realised.”
- “Some pupils still have gaps in their mathematical knowledge that teachers have not addressed.”
- “There remains inconsistency in the implementation of the mathematics curriculum because not all teachers are checking pupils’ understanding of mathematical concepts before moving on.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 March 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) | 63% | 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: 51 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 51 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.
- Lodge Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Holy Trinity CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Hanbury Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- George Betts Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- King George V Primary School 0.8 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Christ Church Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hargate Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published