Blackheath Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Rowley Regis, Sandwell
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.398 miles
Published by Sandwell Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2024–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Blackheath Primary School is a primary school in Rowley Regis, Sandwell for ages 3–11 (community school). Sandwell has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Blackheath 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 | 0.398 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.398 miles away, the 6th shortest of 22 Sandwell primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance, further than in 2025 and about the same as in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 67 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 10 first-choice families were not offered a place.
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
- Blackheath Primary School Britannia Road, Rowley Regis, B65 9NF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Sandwell
- Pupils on roll
- 456 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 14 April 2026
Strengths
- “There is a clear sense of belonging at Blackheath Primary School.”
- “Staff care for them and champion their success.”
- “This is reflected in how well they attend school.”
To improve
- “However, on occasion, activities are not well matched to what these pupils already know or need to learn.”
- “This sometimes means that some pupils do not make the progress through the curriculum that they should.”
- “In 2025, outcomes in the Year 4 multiplication check were lower than in previous years.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 May 2026 (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: 67 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 57 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.
- Highfields Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rowley Hall Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Causeway Green Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brickhouse Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St James CofE Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Temple Meadow Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Springfield Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Langley Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published